Usage:
Dead Horse Flat Formation of Belted Range Group (NV*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Miocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 2,377 to 7,380 ft, drillhole UE-19c, Pahute Mesa, Nye Co., NV. Named from topographic feature within Dead Horse Flat quadrangle, Nye Co., NV (Sawyer and others, 1994).
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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