Usage:
Stone Canyon Limestone (CA*)
Geologic age:
late Early to Middle Mississippian (Tournaisian to Visean; Osagean)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: near Minnietta Mine along east flank of Argus Range, approx. 500 m north of Stone Canyon, between 3,120 and 3,440 ft elevation, in secs. 27 and 28, T. 19 S., R. 42 E., Lat. 36 deg. 15 min. 13 sec. N., Long. 117 deg. 26 min. 28 sec. W., Panamint Butte 15-min quadrangle, Inyo Co., eastern CA. Named from Stone Canyon (Stevens and others, 1996).
Reference section: in Cottonwood Canyon, Cottonwood Mountains, in sec. 8, T. 16 S., R. 43 E. (unsurveyed), [Lat. 36 deg. 34.8 min. N., Long. 117 deg. 19.2 min. W.], Cottonwood Canyon quadrangle, Inyo Co., Death Valley National Monument, eastern CA (Stevens and others, 1996; this is Cottonwood Canyon section of Stevens and others, 1995, SEPM Spec. Pub., no. 52).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province*
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