Usage:
Moonshine Creek Latite (NV*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Oligocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposures on east side of upper Moonshine Creek, either in sec. 16 (projected)[?] or 15[?], T. 13 1/2 N., R. 51 E., southwest corner of Cockalorum Wash 15-min quadrangle, Nye Co., NV. Named from Moonshine Creek (Hose, 1983).
[Discrepancy in GNU records (USGS DDS-6) concerning whether type section occurs in sec. 16 or 15. --unresolved.]
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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