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Geologic Unit: Slide Creek

Usage:

/Slide Creek Gravel (NV*)

[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Slide Creek Member of Strawberry Volcanics of Thayer (1957) in OR.]


Geologic age:

Tertiary*
Miocene, late*


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

On west side of ridge to east of Slide Creek Canyon, on east-central edge of Jarbidge quadrangle, Bieroth Ridge area, Elko Co., northeastern NV. Named from Slide Creek Canyon (Coats, 1964).


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.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).