Usage:
Wadsworth Bed of Eetza Formation
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Pleistocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Wadsworth Ampitheatre, north of Wadsworth, Washoe 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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