Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Oak Spring Group (NV*) reallocated to numerous geologic units. See entry under Orkild (1965).)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from Oak Spring Butte, in Nevada Test Site, Nye Co., NV (Johnson and Hibbard, 1957).
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 ([ ]).