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Geologic Unit: Eetza

Usage:

Eetza Alloformation (NV)
Eetza Formation of Lahontan Valley Group (NV*)


Subunits:

FORMATION STATUS: /Wadsworth Bed (NV).


Geologic age:

Quaternary
Pleistocene*


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

Uppermost 1/8 mi of large southward-draining gulch in western part of Eetza Mountain, in SW/4 sec. 21, T. 18 N., R. 30 E,. Carson Desert [Carson Lake 15-min quadrangle, Churchill Co., NV] (Morrison, 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.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).