Usage:
No current usage.
(†Telegraph Canyon Formation (NV) replaced with Sentinel Mountain Dolomite. See Sentinel Mountain.)
Geologic age:
Middle Devonian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: at Telegraph Canyon, [Lat. 40 deg. 05 min. 52 sec. N., Long. 116 deg. 01 min. 33 sec. W.], in central Mineral Hill 15-min quadrangle, Eureka Co., NV (Carlisle and others, 1957).
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.
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