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  • Usage in publication:
    • Rescue Canyon rhyolite*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Iddings, J.P., 1892, Microscopical petrography of the eruptive rocks of the Eureka district, Nevada, Appendix B, IN Hague, Arnold, Geology of the Eureka district, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Monograph, 20, p. 335-406.


Summary:

Unit is named the Rescue Canyon rhyolite. Consists of red lava flow. Overlies the Nevada formation. Age is Tertiary. (B1520)

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


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