- Usage in publication:
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- Salt Wells Member
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- Named
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Great Basin province
Summary:
Salt Wells Member of the Mono Basin Formation (new) [probably named for the town of Salt Wells] is named for rocks in the Lake Lahontan sequence in NV. Contains two tephra layers regarded a stratigraphic markers, the Walker Lake Bed (new) and Turupah Flat Bed (new), composed of rhyolite that has similar glass chemistry. Source is attributed to Mono basin because of its distribution south of the Carson Sink and because rhyolitic tephra of similar age and petrography was erupted in the Mono basin. Age is Holocene, about 2 to 0.6 ka. (B1565)
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).
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