Usage:
Fenstermaker Wash Formation (NV*)
Geologic age:
Devonian, Middle*
Devonian, Late*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Measured sections: lower part in SE/4 sec. 16, T. 16 N., R. 51 E., in NE/4 NE/4 sec. 21, T. 15 N., R. 51 E., and in NE/4 NE/4 sec. 20, T. 15 N., R. 51 E.; middle and upper parts in NE/4 sec. 20 and NW/4 sec. 21, T. 15 N., R. 51 E., northern Antelope Range, Eureka Co., NV. Named from Fenstermaker Wash, northeast and east of the northern part of the Antelope Range (Hose and others, 1982).
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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