- Usage in publication:
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- Ruth limestone
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Great Basin province
Summary:
[Named] for Ruth mine, Robinson mining district [Ely quad] Egan Range, White Pine Co, NV. Is heavy but distinctly bedded blue-gray limestone carrying fossils identified by G.H. Girty as of late Carboniferous age. [list of fossils included]. Characterized by abundance of flint or chert nodules. Thickness is 500 feet. Overlies Arcturus limestone (new).
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).
- Usage in publication:
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- Ruth limestone
- Modifications:
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- Not used
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Great Basin province
Summary:
Ruth limestone of Lawson (1906) is discovered to be much lower in section than mapped by Lawson, and "in fact is the same as the Ely limestone", p. 26. Age of Ely limestone is Pennsylvanian based on fossils identified by G.H. Girty.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).
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