Usage:
Windfall Formation (NV*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Barton Canyon Member, Bullwhacker Member*, Catlin Member*.
Geologic age:
Late Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Windfall Canyon, just north of the old Windfall Mine [in T. 18 N., R. 35 E.], Eureka mining district, Eureka Co., central NV (Nolan and others, 1956).
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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