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Origin of Devonian rock units in the southern Fish Creek Range, Nye County, Nevada

Creator:

Sans, Roger Stephen

Abstract:

In the southern Fish Creek Range, Nye County Nevada, Devonian rocks are found overlying younger rocks. These Devonian units are allochthonous blocks that slid by gravity into their present positions. The allochthonous blocks represent several different provenances commonly found to the west and northwest of the area. The blocks include...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
Devonian and Mississippian stratigraphy of the southern Hot Creek Range, Nye County, Nevada

Creator:

Graham, John Paul

Abstract:

Devonian carbonate rocks of the southern Hot Creek Range reflect a shift to the east of the carbonate shelf edge and a progressively deeper-water lithotope from late Early Devonian to early Middle Devonian time. Lower Devonian mudstones of the McColley Canyon Formation were deposited on an open shelf, dolomitized, and...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis