Usage:
Marble Bluff Bed in Sehoo Formation (NV)
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Pleistocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Marble Bluff, in banks of Mud Lake (Winnemucca) Slough, 5.6 km north of Nixon, in NW/4 NW/4 sec. 12, T. 23 N., R. 23 E., Nixon 15-min quadrangle, Washoe Co., NV (Davis, 1978).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province
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