Rainbow Gardens Member of Horse Spring Formation
Usage of Geologic Unit Name:
Rainbow Gardens Member* of Horse Spring Formation
Tertiary*
Miocene*
Great Basin province*
Plateau sedimentary province*
NV(se)*
AZ(nw)*
Type Locality:
Type section: Lat 36 deg 38' 30" N; long 114 deg 57' 30" W, in Rainbow Gardens, Henderson and Frenchman Mountain quads, Clark Co, NV (Bohannon, 1984).
Unit Name History
Named as the basal member (of four members) of Horse Spring Formation (Bohannon, 1984). Age modified (Beard, 1993).

Bohannon, R.G., 1984, Nonmarine sedimentary rocks of Tertiary age in the Lake Mead region, southeastern Nevada and northwestern Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1259, 72 p., (incl. geologic map, scale approx. 1:790,000).

Beard, S.C., 1993, Tertiary stratigraphy of the south Virgin Mountains, southeast Nevada, and the Grand Wash Trough, northeast Arizona, IN Sherrod, D.R., and Neilson, J.E., editors, Tertiary stratigraphy of the highly extended terranes, California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 2053, p. 29-32.

Beard, L.S., 1996, Paleogeography of the Horse Spring Formation in relation to the Lake Mead fault system, Virgin Mountains, Nevada and Arizona,in Reconstructing the History of Basin and Range Extension using sedimentology and stratigraphy, Beratan, K.K., ed., Geological Society of America Special Paper 303, p. 27-60.

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