Usage:
Bald Mountain Formation (NV*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary, early*
Oligocene, late*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality not stated. Composes upper part of Bald Mountain to within about 400 ft of its top, Manhattan district, Toquima Range, Nye Co., central NV (Ferguson, 1924).
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.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).