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Geologic Unit: Saddle Mountain

Usage:

/Saddle Mountain Andesite (NV)

[Not proposed in accordance with ACSN (1961). Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Saddle Mountain porphyry of Bain (1900) in OK, Saddle Mountain Lava of Williams (1932) in CA, and Saddle Mountain Diorite of Dott (1965) in OR.]


Geologic age:

early Tertiary (Oligocene)


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Notable exposures in Grant Range, NV (Scott, 1966).


AAPG geologic province:

Great Basin province


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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