Usage:
Lovelock Alloformation (NV)
Lovelock Formation (NV)
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Pleistocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Valley in Humboldt River for a mi below Rye Patch Dam, 22 mi north of Lovelock, Pershing Co., NV (Morrison and Frye, 1965).
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 ( ).
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