Usage:
Porter Peak Limestone (NV)
Geologic age:
Late Cambrian or Early Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from Porter Peak in northern part of Bull Run 15-min quadrangle, Elko Co., northeastern NV. Two of the three summits of Porter Peak are developed on the limestone. Exposed in wide band crossing range in east-west direction north of Bull Run Creek, in downfaulted block immediately south of Bull Run Canyon, and to extreme south in portion of range known as Lime Mountain (Decker, 1962).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province
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