Usage:
Cane Spring Formation of Star Peak Group (NV*)
Geologic age:
Triassic, Late*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Summit and southeast slope of Augusta Mountain, near Cane Spring, 2 mi south of Mt. Tobin 30- x 60-min quadrangle boundary, in northeast part of Shoshone Meadows 15-min quadrangle, Lander Co., northern NV (Muller and others, 1951).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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