Usage:
Wyemaha Alloformation (NV)
Wyemaha Formation of Lahontan Valley Group (NV*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Pleistocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Saddle between Sehoo and Eetza Mountains at western end of Wyemaha Valley, in E/2 sec. 21, T. 18 N., R. 30 E., Carson Desert [Carson Lake 15-min quadrangle] near Fallon, Churchill Co., NV (Morrison, 1964).
Principal reference locality: in Wadsworth Amphitheatre, in E/2 sec. 15, T. 21 N., R. 2 E., Wadsworth 15-min quadrangle, Washoe Co., NV (Morrison and Davis, 1984).
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.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).