Usage:
No current usage.
(†Daylight Formation (CA*,NV*) replaced with Wood Canyon Formation. See Wood Canyon.)
Geologic age:
Precambrian*
Cambrian, Early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in southwestern part of Bullfron quadrangle where Daylight Pass is located in sec. 36, T. 13 S., R. 46 E., Inyo Co., eastern CA (Cornwall and Kleinhampl, 1964).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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