Usage:
Buffalo Canyon Formation (NV)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Miocene, early
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area not designated, but described as occurring in lowland area between southern Desatoya Mountains and Eastgate Hills, chiefly south of State Highway 2 (old U.S. 50), Buffalo Summit 7.5-min quadrangle, Churchill Co., west-central NV. Origin of name not stated but probably named from Buffalo Canyon (Axelrod, 1991).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province
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