Usage:
Paintbrush Group (CA*,NV*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Pah Canyon Tuff (NV*), Tiva Canyon Tuff (CA*,NV*), Topopah Spring Tuff (NV*), Yucca Mountain (NV*).
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Miocene*
Miocene, middle* (local)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Paintbrush Canyon, 2.5 mi northeast of Yucca Mountain, Nevada Test Site, Nye Co., southeastern NV (Orkild, 1965).
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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