Usage:
Soda Lake Bed of Carson Desert Formation (NV)
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Pleistocene
Holocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: "measured section 10" of Morrison (1964), bluff on the southeast side of Soda Lake, Carson Desert, in SW/4 SW/4 sec. 8, T. 19 N., R. 28 E., [Soda Lake East 7.5-min quadrangle], Churchill Co., NV (Davis, 1978).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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