Usage:
Beacon Flat Formation (NV)
Geologic age:
early Permian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section [composite]: on north side of Humboldt River at Carlin Canyon, [Grindstone Mountain and Carlin East 7.5-min quadrangles], Elko Co., NV; lower member, in SE/4 SE/4 NW/4 and NE/4 NE/4 SW/4 sec. 15, T. 33 N., R. 53 E., and upper member, in SW/4 SE/4 and SE/4 SW/4 sec. 14, and in NW/4 sec. 23, T. 33 N., R. 53 E. (Fails, 1960).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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