Usage:
Sourdough Limestone of Telescope Group (CA)
Sourdough Limestone Member of Kingston Peak Formation (CA*)
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in Sour Dough Canyon, near Panamint City, southern part of Panamint Range, Inyo Co., east-central CA (Murphy, 1930; 1933). [See also US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200 (spelled Sour Dough).]
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 ([ ]).