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Geologic Unit: Timber Lake

Usage:

Timber Lake Bed of Pyramid Lake Member of Mount Mazama Formation (NV)


Geologic age:

Quaternary
Pleistocene


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: "measured section 3" of Morrison (1964), on west bank of Carson River, 1 km north of Timber Lake, in NE/4 NW/4 sec. 30, T. 21 N., R. 30 E., Chruchill Co., NV (Davis, 1978).


AAPG geologic province:

Great Basin province


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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