Usage:
Gold Flat Tuff of Thirsty Canyon Group (NV*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Miocene, late*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: about 10 mi south of Gold Flat, in upper Thirsty Canyon, Lat. 37 deg. 15 min. N., Long. 116 deg. 36 min. W., Thirsty Canyon and Black Mountain 15-min quadrangles, Nye Co., southern NV (Noble and others, 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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