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Geologic Unit: Cockalorum Wash

Usage:

No current usage.
(Rocks of †Cockalorum Wash Formation (NV) reallocated to Devils Gate Limestone, Pilot Shale, Woodruff Formation, Antelope Range Formation, and Webb Formation. See Devils Gate, Pilot, Woodruff, Antelope Range, and Webb.)


Geologic age:

Middle Devonian


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: exposures from western base of Conglomerate Ridge westward through Reef Hill in northern part of its outcrop, southern Fish Creek Range, Nye Co., NV (Merriam, 1973).


AAPG geologic province:

Great Basin province


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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