Usage:
/Box Canyon Formation (NV)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Box Canyon Member of Mutual Quartzite by Williams (1953) in UT.]
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Oligocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposures in Hot Creek Range, at northeast juncture of Hot Creek Canyon and Box Canyon, in SW/4 of T. 8 N., R. 49 E., Nye Co., NV (Cook, 1968).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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