Usage:
Clipper Canyon Group (NV)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in NV: Charcoal Canyon Formation, Joes Canyon Formation, Petes Summit Formation, Sams Spring Formation.
Geologic age:
Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not stated. Named from Clipper Canyon in Toquima Range, NV (Kay, 1962).
Occurs in drainage of Clipper (or Clipper Gap) Canyon and adjoining Petes Canyon, Toquima Range, Nye and Lander Cos., northern NV (Kay and Crawford, 1964).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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