Usage:
Star Peak Group (NV*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in NV: Augusta Mountain Formation, Cane Spring Formation, Congress Canyon Formation, Dixie Valley Formation, Favret Formation, Fossil Hill Formation, Natchez Pass Formation, Prida Formation, Tobin Formation.
Geologic age:
Triassic, Late*
Triassic, Middle*
Triassic, Early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from development at Star Peak Mountain in West Humboldt Range, northwestern and northern NV (King, 1876).
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 ([ ]).