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*
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