Usage:
Rest Spring Shale (CA*)
Geologic age:
Middle to Late Mississippian (late Visean to Serpukhovian; late Meramecian to Chesterian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: extends from head of gulch 2,000 ft south of Rest Spring northward to within 200 ft of top of hill that is 2,000 ft northwest of Burro Spring, Inyo Co., eastern CA. Named from extensive exposures around Rest Spring (McAllister, 1952).
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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