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Geologic Unit: Oak Spring

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.

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