Usage:
Mickey Pass Tuff of Benton Spring Group (NV*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in NV*: Guild Mine Member, Weed Heights Member.
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Oligocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: exposures northeast of Mickey Pass, in SE/4 sec. 13, T. 13 N., R. 24 E., and in SW/4 sec. 18, T. 13 N., R. 25 E., Singatse Range, Lyon Co., NV (Proffett and Proffett, 1976).
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 ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).