Carboniferous marine rocks, unit 8 (Mono Lake) (CAC8;0)

State	California
Name	Carboniferous marine rocks, unit 8 (Mono Lake)
Geologic age	Ordovician to Devonian
Original map label	C
Comments	East-central Sierra Nevada near Mono Lake. Part of unit consists of chert, sandstone, and hornfels of Silurian to Devonian age; part is chert-argillite of probable Ordovician age
Primary rock type	argillite
Secondary rock type	chert
Other rock types	hornfels; sandstone
Lithologic constituents
Map references	Jennings, C.W., Strand, R.G., and Rogers, T.H., 1977, Geologic map of California: California Division of Mines and Geology, scale 1:750,000.
Unit references	Jennings, C.W., Strand, R.G., and Rogers, T.H., 1977, Geologic map of California: California Division of Mines and Geology, scale 1:750,000. Jennings, C.W., 1985, An explanatory text to accompany the 1:750,000 scale fault and geologic maps of California: California Division of Mines and Geology, Bulletin 201, 197 p. Strand, R.G., 1967, Geologic map of California, Olaf P. Jenkins edition, Mariposa sheet, scale 1:250,000. Stevens, C.H., and Greene, D.C., 1999, Stratigraphy, depositional history, and tectonic evolution of Paleozoic continental-margin rocks in roof pendants of the eastern Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 111, p. 919-933. Greene, D.C., Schweickert, R.A., and Stevens, C.H., 1995, Roberts Mountains allochthon and the western margin of the Cordilleran miogeocline in the Northern Ritter Range pendant, eastern Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 109, p. 1294-1305.
Geographic coverage	Madera - Mono - Tuolumne