Usage:
Chloropagus Formation (NV)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (middle Miocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: in middle foothills of Hot Springs (Kawsoh) Mountains 1 to 2 mi north of Desert Peak, in vicinity of Green Hill (Chloropagus), Desert Peak 7.5-min quadrangle, [Churchill Co.], western NV (Axelrod, 1956; see also Axelrod, 1995).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province
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