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Usage:
Hobart Till (CA*)
Geologic age:
Pleistocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: ground moraine exposed in Highway 40 Freeway roadcut north end of Truckee, just west of Trout Creek overpass, in south-central part sec. 10, T. 17 N., R. 16 E. Named from outcrops in roadcuts along Highway 89 west of Hobart Mills and Highway 40 Freeway north of Truckee, [Nevada Co.], eastern northern CA (Birkeland, 1964).
AAPG geologic province:
Sierra Nevada province*
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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 ( ).
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