Usage:
Rocket Wash Tuff of Thirsty Canyon Group (NV*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Miocene, late*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
In vicinity of Rocket Wash and East Fork Thirsty Canyon, from Lat. 37 deg. 7.5 min. to 37 deg. 10 min. N., and from Long. 116 deg. 30 min. to 116 deg. 37.5 min. W., in southern third of Thirsty Canyon 7.5-min quadrangle, Nye Co., southern NV (Noble and others, 1968).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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