Usage:
Murdock Mountain Formation of Park City Group (NV*,UT*)
Murdock Mountain Formation (UT*)
Geologic age:
middle Permian (early to middle Guadalupian; Roadian to Wordian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: east flank of Murdock Mountain, in north-center sec. 36, T. 39 N., R. 67 E., Loray 7.5-min quadrangle, Leach Mountains, Elko Co., northeastern NV (Wardlaw and others, 1979).
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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