Usage:
Thirsty Canyon Group (NV*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in NV*: Gold Flat Tuff, Pahute Mesa Tuff, Rocket Wash Tuff, Trail Ridge Tuff.
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Miocene, late*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area (no complete section exposed): in headward part of Thirsty Canyon, north and east of Beatty, Black Mountain 15-min quadrangle, Nye Co., southern NV. Crops out from Beatty to Goldfield, Nye and Esmeralda Cos., NV (Noble and others, 1964).
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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