Usage:
Stella Lake Quartzite of McCoy Creek Group (NV)
Geologic age:
late Precambrian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Located either north[?] or south[?] of Stella Lake, southern Snake Range, Wheeler Peak 7.5-min quadrangle, White Pine Co., NV. Origin of name not stated by authors, but probably named from Stella Lake, which is near the head of Lehman Creek, southern Snake Range, White Pine Co., NV (Misch and Hazzard, 1962).
[Discrepancy in GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX, Oct. 26, 1989) concerning whether type locality occurs north or south of Stella Lake. --unresolved.]
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin region
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