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Geologic Unit: Paiute Ridge

Usage:

Paiute Ridge Member of Antelope Valley Limestone of Pogonip Group (CA,NV*)


Geologic age:

Early Ordovician (Ibexian; Tremadocian to Arenigian; Stairsian to Tulean)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type locality: Paiute Ridge, [Lat. 37 deg. 04 min. 13 sec. N., Long. 115 deg. 57 min. 58 sec. W., Paiute Ridge 7.5-min quadrangle], Nye Co., southern NV (Byers and others, 1961).


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 ([ ]).