Usage:
Yellowpine Limestone of Monte Cristo Group (NV*)
Yellowpine Member of Monte Cristo Limestone (AZ*,CA*,NV?)
Misspelled Yellow Pine in some reports.
Subunits:
Arrowhead Member (NV*).
Geologic age:
Middle Mississippian (Visean; Osage to Meramecian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures near Yellow Pine Mine, in sec. 20, T. 24 S., R. 58 E., Goodsprings quadrangle, Clark Co., NV (Hewett, 1931).
AAPG geologic province:
Plateau sedimentary province*
Great Basin province*
Mojave basin*
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 ([ ]).