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Usage:
Hoyt Canyon Formation (NV)
Geologic age:
Triassic, Late
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not stated. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from exposures in Hoyt Canyon, in secs. 10 and 11, T. 22 N., R. 37 E., Clan Alpine Mountains, Churchill Co., NV (Speed, 1976).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province
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