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Younger silicic ash flow tuffs
Includes units mapped as the High Rock sequence on the Washoe North map; the Timber Mountain, Paintbrush, Crater Flat, and Belted Range Tuffs, and Indian Trail Formation (now abandoned) on the Nye South map; the Thirsty Canyon Tuff on the Nye South and Esmeralda maps; and other unnamed units. Locally it includes tuffaceous sedimentary rocks interstratified with tuffs. It is present in the northernmost part and southernmost parts of the State, and is not exposed in the central region. It corresponds to unit Tt3 on the 1978 State map, although a few rocks also mapped as Trt on the 1978 State map also are included. It is present in Clark, Churchill, Washoe, Nye, Lincoln, Lyon, Douglas, Carson, Esmeralda, Elko, Humboldt, Pershing, and Mineral Counties.
State |
Nevada |
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Younger silicic ash flow tuffs |
Geologic age |
Miocene |
Lithologic constituents |
Major
Igneous > Volcanic (Pyroclastic-ash flow, Pyroclastic-tuff)
Minor
Sedimentary (Tuffaceous, Bed)Locally it includes tuffaceous sedimentary rocks interstratified with tuffs.
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References |
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NGMDB product |
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Counties |
Churchill - Clark - Elko - Esmeralda - Humboldt - Lincoln - Lyon - Mineral - Nye - Pershing - Washoe
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