Usage:
Rye Patch Alloformation (NV)
Rye Patch Formation (NV)
Subunits:
Rye Patch Dam Bed (NV).
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Pleistocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures within quarter-mile radius of Rye Patch Dam in bluffs of Humboldt River valley, Pershing Co., western NV (Morrison and Frye, 1965).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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