Usage:
Augusta Mountain Formation of Star Peak Group (NV*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in NV*: Home Station Member, Panther Canyon Member, Smelser Pass Member.
Geologic age:
Middle and Late Triassic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: exposures underlying west, north, and east flanks of Lone Peak [now Cain Mountain], in T. 25 N., R. 39 and 40 E., Augusta Mountain [now Augusta Mountains], Lander Co. [now in extreme southeastern Pershing Co.; see Cain Mountain 15-min quadrangle], northwestern NV (Muller and others, 1951).
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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