Usage:
Schoonover Formation (NV)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in NV: Bailey Creek Member, Cap Winn Member, Dorsey Creek Member, Frost Creek Member, Fry Creek Member, Harrington Creek Member, Mikes Creek Member, Ott Creek Member.
Geologic age:
Devonian, Late(?)
Mississippian
Pennsylvanian, Early
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Schoonover Creek, Bull Run quadrangle, Elko Co., northeastern NV (Fagan, 1962).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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