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  • Usage in publication:
    • Table Mountain flow
  • Modifications:
    • First used
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Sierra Nevada province
Publication:

Ransome, F.L., 1898, Some lava flows of the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 89, 74 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:125,000)


Summary:

Unit is recognized as the Table Mountain flow. Age is not given.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Table Mountain latite [facies]
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
    • Geochronologic dating
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Sierra Nevada province
Publication:

Dalrymple, G.B., 1964, Cenozoic chronology of the Sierra Nevada, California: University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, v. 47, 41 p.


Summary:

Report on potassium-argon dating research pertinent to some problems of Cenozoic history of the Sierra Nevada. Age of the Table Mountain latite [facies] of the Mehrten Formation is Pliocene, based on a radiometric (K-Ar) age of 9.0 +/-0.2 Ma.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Table Mountain Latite Member
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Sierra Nevada province
Publication:

Slemmons, D.B., 1966, Cenozoic volcanism of the central Sierra Nevada, California, IN Bailey, E.H., ed., Geology of northern California: California Division of Mines and Geology Bulletin, no. 190, p. 199-208.


Summary:

Table Mountain flow (Ransome, 1898) is named the Table Mountain Latite Member (lowest of 3) of the Stanislaus Formation. Age is Pliocene, based on a radiometric (K-Ar) age of 9.0 +/-0.2 Ma (Dalrymple, 1964).

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Table Mountain Latite*
  • Modifications:
    • Adopted
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Sierra Nevada province
Publication:

Noble, D.C., Slemmons, D.B., Korringa, M.K., Dickinson, W.R., Al-Rawi, Yehya, and McKee, E.H., 1974, Eureka Valley Tuff, east-central California and adjacent Nevada: Geological Society of America, Geology, v. 2, no. 3, p. 139-142.


Summary:

Table Mountain Latite Member of the Stanislaus Formation (Slemmons, 1966) is adopted as the Table Mountain Latite of the Stanislaus Group. Age is late Miocene.

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


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