Usage:
Saline Valley Formation (CA*,NV)
Geologic age:
Early Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures [type section] along the Waucoba Spring section, overlooking Saline Valley to the south. The Waucoba section is that described by Walcott (1908, Smithsonian Misc. ColIn., v. 53, no. 5) east of Waucoba Springs, on Saline Valley Road, east of Inyo Range, Wacoba Spring 15-min quadrangle, Inyo Co., CA (Nelson, 1962).
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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