Hualapai Limestone Member of the Muddy Creek Formation
Usage of Geologic Unit Name:
Hualapai Limestone*
Age:
Pliocene*
Miocene*
Tertiary*
Geologic Province:
Great Basin province*
Areal Extent:
AZ(nw)*
NV(se)*

Type Locality:
along Hualapai Wash from spot where wash joins Lake Mead south along wash for about 9 km, Mohave Co, AZ (Longwell, 1936).

Unit Name History:
Named Hualapai Limestone (Longwell, 1936). Revised to Hualapai Limestone Member of Muddy Creek Formation (Blair, 1978). Areal limits; Overview (Blair and Armstrong, 1979). Reinstated as Hualapai Limestone (Bohannon, 1984).

References

Blair, W.N., 1978, Gulf of California in the Lake Mead area of Arizona nad Nevada during late Miocene time: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 62, p. 1159-1170.

Blair, W.N., and Armstrong, A.K., 1979, Hualapai Limestone member of the Muddy Creek Formation: The youngest deposit predating the Grand Canyon, southeastern Nevada and northwestern Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1111, 14 p.

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.

Longwell, C.R., 1936, Geology of the Boulder Reservoir floor, Arizona-Nevada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 47, p. 1393-1476.

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