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  • Usage in publication:
    • Resting Springs formation*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
    • Tuff
    • Latite
    • Dacite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Hewett, D.F., 1956, Geology and mineral resources of the Ivanpah Quadrangle, California and Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 275, 172 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:125,000)


Summary:

Unit is named the Resting Springs formation [for Resting Springs, Inyo Co. CA. Consists of three principal units: the lowest consists of sandy limestone with pebble zones, the middle consists of light-colored water-laid tuffs, and the upper unit of flows of reddish latite and dacite. Total thickness not given. [Unconformably] underlain by the Goodsprings dolomite. Age is Pleistocene(?)(on map) based on stratigraphic relations.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Resting Springs Formation*
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Calzia, J.P., 1991, Geology of the Kingston Range, southern Death Valley, California, IN Reynolds, R.E., compiler, Reynolds, Jennifer, ed., Crossing the borders; Quaternary studies in eastern California and southwestern Nevada: San Bernardino County Museum Association Special Publication, 5th Mojave Desert Quaternary Research Center Symposium, Redlands, CA, May 17-20, 1991, p. 176-188., Prepared in conjunction with the 1991 Mojave Desert Quaternary Research Center Symposium


Summary:

Age of the Resting Springs Formation is revised from Pleistocene(?) to: middle Miocene based on radiometric (K-Ar) ages of 12.5 Ma (biotite) and 11.1 Ma (plagioclase) from an andesite flow, and a [whole rock] age of 14.1 Ma from a tuff bed.

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


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