Usage:
Highland Peak Limestone (NV*)
Highland Peak Formation (NV*,UT)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Burnt Canyon Member (NV*), Burrows Member (NV*), Condor Member (NV*), Meadow Valley Member (NV*), Peasley Member (AZ*,NV*), Step Ridge Member (NV*).
Geologic age:
Middle Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from best exposures on western slope of Highland Peak, Highland Range, Pioche district, eastern NV (Westgate and Knopf, 1927).
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 ([ ]).