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Geologic Units: Reservation Hill
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Reservation Hill Formation*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
    • Siltstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Coats, R.R., 1969, Upper Paleozoic formations of the Mountain City area, Elko County, Nevada, IN Cohee, G.V., and others, Changes in stratigraphic nomenclature by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1967: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1274-A, p. A22-A27.


Summary:

Unit is named the Reservation Hill Formation. Consists of dolomitic sandstone or siltstone with interbedded metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks. Weathers to creamy-white to reddish-brown. Thickness not given. Overlies the Mountain City Formation in thrust contact; intruded by Cretaceous quartz monzonite; underlies Tertiary rocks. Age is Pennsylvanian(?) and Permian(?). (B1520)

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


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