Usage:
Young America Gravel (NV)
Geologic age:
Miocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Erosion surface best exhibited between Tennessee Mountain and Pine Mountain, where a high flat divide developed on granitic rock, metamorphosed limestone, and quartzite, separates the southern and northern drainage of Rowland quadrangle, Elko Co., northeastern NV. Origin of name not stated by author (Bushnell, 1967).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province
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