- Usage in publication:
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- Tonopah Summit Member
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Geochronologic dating
- Dominant lithology:
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- Tuff
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Great Basin province
Summary:
Named as lower member (of 2) of Fraction Tuff. Type locality designated as low slopes south and southeast of Mount Butler and Brock Mountain, secs.11-12 T2N R42E near Tonopah Summit 1.6 km southeast of town of Tonopah, Esmeralda Co, NV. Composed of nonwelded to weakly welded, in part hydrothermally altered vitric-lithic quartz latite to rhyolite ash-flow tuff. Thickness ranges from 60 to 400 m. Unconformably overlies Mizpah Formation; unconformably underlies Siebert Formation, Heller Tuff, King Tonopah Member (new) (Fraction Tuff), and trachyandesite of Red Mountain. Intruded by Oddie Rhyolite; intruded and overlain by Brougher Rhyolite. Is Miocene age based on fission-track age on apatite of 18.4 +/-3.1 Ma and K-Ar age on alkali feldspar of 16.2 +/-0.5 Ma.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).
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