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Geologic Unit: Labyrinth Canyon

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Labyrinth Canyon Member of Thirsty Canyon Tuff (NV) replaced with Spearhead Member of Stonewall Flat Tuff. See Spearhead.)


Geologic age:

Tertiary
Miocene


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Headward part of Labyrinth Canyon, Lat. 37 deg. 17 min. N., Long. 116 deg. 41 min. W., Black Mountain 15-min quadrangle, 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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