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Carbonate Shelf Sequence - Bioclastic limestone
Mostly Lower Pennsylvanian limestone is present in Nye, Elko, Eureka, White Pine, Lincoln, and Clark Counties, and is most commonly referred to as the Ely Limestone. A ledgy gray limestone mapped as the Moleen Formation is included here. It is not mapped separately from unit PIPc in most of White Pine County, southeastern Elko County, southern Lincoln, and western Clark Counties. Throughout most of the area of exposure unit lies conformably or disconformably beneath unit PIPc and depositionally above unit IPMcl. In southern Nye County this unit includes the Tippipah Limestone, and in Clark County it includes the Callville Limestone. In a north-south trending belt starting at the north end of the Pancake Range in Nye County and continuing north up through the Diamond Mountains along the Eureka-White Pine County border, Lower Pennsylvanian limestone is overlain unconformably by clastic rocks of the Siliciclastic overlap assemblage (Pacl, PIPacl). North of the Diamond Mountains, where Lower Pennsylvanian carbonate is not recognized separately, the coeval facies are grouped with unit IPMcl. Unit IPMbc is primarily Pennsylvanian, but in places contains Late Mississippian fossils as well.
State |
Nevada |
Name |
Carbonate Shelf Sequence - Bioclastic limestone |
Geologic age |
Pennsylvanian and Upper Mississippian |
Lithologic constituents |
Major
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed)bioclastic limestone
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References |
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NGMDB product |
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Counties |
Clark - Elko - Eureka - Lincoln - Nye - White Pine
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