Usage:
Fish Creek Mountains Tuff (NV*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Miocene, early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Cliff below and to the west of U.S. Government radio facility, in SW/4 sec. 19, T. 27 N., R. 41 E., Fish Creek Mountains, Mount Moses 15-min quadrangle, Lander Co., northern NV (McKee, 1970).
Referenc section: east side of Fish Creek Canyon, Lat. 40 deg. 12 min. N., Long. 117 deg. 15 min. W., Mount Moses 15-min quadrangle, Lander Co., northern NV (McKee, 1970).
Named from exposures in southern Fish Creek Mountains (McKee, 1970).
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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