Nopah Dolomite
Usage of Geologic Unit Name:
Nopah Formation*
Nopah Dolomite*
Age:
Cambrian, Late*
Geologic Province:
Plateau sedimentary province*
Great Basin province*
Areal Extent:
AZ(nw)*
CA*
NV(se)*
Type Locality:
Not compiled to date.
Unit Name History:
Questionably identified in AZ (Billingsley and others, 1989). Areal limits (Hintze, Axen, 1995). Overview (Hintze, Axen, 1995). Redescribed (Hintze, Axen, 1995).

References

Billingsley, G.H., Elston, D.P. and Kieffer, S.W., 1989, Geologic log of Colorado River from Lees Ferry to Temple Bar, Lake Mead, Arizona, Part II, IN Elston, D.P., Billingsley, G.H., and Young, R.A., editors, Geology of Grand Canyon, northern Arizona (with Colorado river guides); Lees Ferry to Pierce Ferry, Arizona; guidebook to field trips T115 and T315: International Geological Congress, 28th, Field Trip Guidebook, T115, T315, Washington, DC, 1989, p. 1-36.

Hintze, L.F. and Axen, G.J., 1995, Geologic map of the Scarecrow Peak Quadrangle, Washington County, Utah and Lincoln Co, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map, GQ-1759, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000.

Hicks, Melissa, and Shapiro, Russell S., 2002, Development of a sequence stratigraphic framework for the upper Nopah Formation (Upper Cambrian, eastern California and western Nevada): Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 4, p. 51.

McCutcheon, Kirk F., Cooper, John D., 1989, Environmental carbonate stratigraphy and cyclic deposition of Smoky Member, type Nopah Formation (Upper Cambrian), Nopah Range, southern Great Basin: AAPG Bulletin, v. 73, no. 4, p. 545.

McCutcheon, Kirk F., Griffin, Karen M., and Cooper, John D., 1989, Stop 2., Upper Cambrian section, northern Nopah Range: In, Cavalcade of carbonates: Cooper, John D., ed., Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, Field Trip Guidebook, v. 61, p. 21-31.

McCutcheon, Kirk F., and Cooper, John D., 1989, Environmental carbonate stratigraphy and cyclic deposition of the Smoky Member of the Nopah Formation (Upper Cambrian), Nopah Range, southern Great Basin: In, Cavalcade of carbonates: Cooper, John D., ed., Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, Field Trip Guidebook, v. 61, p. 87-100.

Cooper, J. D., and Miller, R. H., 1976, Stratigraphy and depositional environments of lower part of Nopah Formation (upper Cambrian), southern Great Basin: AAPG Bulletin, vol.60, no.4, p.659.
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