Usage:
Pyramid Shale Member of Carrara Formation (CA*,NV*)
Geologic age:
Cambrian, Early*
Cambrian, Middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures at west base of Pyramid Peak, Funeral Mountains, Inyo Co., southeastern CA. Named from Pyramid Peak (Palmer and Halley, 1979).
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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