The Gold Range assemblage consists of mainly nonmarine, terrigenous clastic, and volcanogenic rocks of probable Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic ages, and local volcanic rocks having younger Mesozoic radiometric ages (Silberling, 1991). It is lying with angular unconformity over Permian rocks included in the Golconda terrane (GC). The oldest rocks are interbedded, subaerial and shallow-marine terrigenous clastic, volcaniclastic, and minor carbonate rocks overlain by shelf carbonates containing Early Jurassic pelecypods. Unfossiliferous quartz arenite and coarse clastic rocks disconformably overlie the shelf carbonate and grade upward into poorly sorted volcanogenic sandstone and coarse clastic rocks (Oldow, 1984a; Oldow and Bartel, 1987). The assemblage is deformed by northeast-trending folds associated with the overlying Luning thrust as well as younger northwest-trending folds (Oldow, 1984a). Archbold and Paul (1970) named these rocks the Gold Range Formation. They were originally mapped as the Luning Formation and in a few cases, the Excelsior Formation by early workers (Archbold and Paul, 1970, p. 6). Speed (1977a) later modified the definition of the Gold Range Formation. Oldow (1981) included some of these rocks in the Water Canyon assemblage. These rocks were included with the Paradise terrane (Silberling, Jones, and others, 1987; Silberling, Jones, and others, 1992), but have been separated here in agreement with Silberling (1991). Silberling (1991) used “Gold Range terrane” to include the unconformably underlying Permian rocks of the Mina Formation. Since the basement rocks are here included with the Golconda terrane, the term “Gold Range assemblage” is used only for the Mesozoic rocks unconformably overlying the Permian basement. The Gold Range assemblage is in the same tectonostratigraphic position as the Humboldt assemblage - both are overlying rocks of the Golconda terrane with a strong angular unconformity. While these assemblages are similar in overall age, they have different stratigraphic sequences and thus paleogeographic settings. The exact stratigraphy of the Gold Range assemblage and whether or not it includes younger Cretaceous volcanic rocks (Silberling, Jones, and others, 1987; Stewart, 1980) is not clear. This assemblage crops out in Esmeralda, Mineral, and northern Nye Counties.