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Geologic Unit: Antelope Range

Usage:

Antelope Range Formation (NV*)


Geologic age:

Mississippian (Osagean or younger)


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: outcrops in south end of sec. 22, T. 16 N., R. 51 E., northern Antelope Range, Eureka Co., NV (Hose and others, 1982).
Reference section: west of hill 7731, southern Fish Creek Range, Cockalorum Wash 15-min quadrangle, Eureka Co., NV (Hose and others, 1982).


AAPG geologic province:

Great Basin province*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

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