Unit is mapped in Elko, Mineral, Humboldt, Lander, Eureka, White Pine, northern Nye, and Esmeralda Counties. Included in this unit are the Carbon Ridge Formation in Eureka and White Pine Counties, parts of the Carlin sequence of Coats (1987), the sandstone and siltstone of Horse Mountain in Elko County, the Edna Mountain Formation in Humboldt and Elko Counties, the Garden Valley Formation in Eureka County, and the Diablo Formation in northern Nye, Mineral, and Esmeralda Counties. In the Candelaria area south of Mina, unit Pacl rests unconformably on deformed Upper Cambrian through Devonian Basin assemblage (DCs) and is overlain by the Lower Triassic Candelaria Formation (TRcl). In the Toiyabe Range, it lies unconformably on deformed Cambrian through Ordovician rocks of the Nolan belt (OCtd). In the Simpson Park Mountains and the Sulphur Spring Range, it rests unconformably on Ordovician and Devonian Slope assemblage rocks (DOts). In the Diamond Mountains it rests unconformably on the Ely Limestone (IPMbc). In the Eureka area, Pacl unconformably overlies the Ely Limestone (IPMbc) and the Diamond Peak Formation (IPMcl) and is unconformably overlain by Cretaceous conglomerate (Kcg). Near Golconda it unconformably overlies PIPacl. In the Adobe Range in Elko County it overlies Foreland basin assemblage rocks (IPMcl, MDcl) and PIPacl, and in the Snake Mountains and HD Range of northeast Nevada it lies unconformably on lower Paleozoic Slope and Basin assemblage rocks (DCs, Ss, DOts) and on older Siliciclastic overlap assemblage rocks (PIPacl).