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Volume: 53 (1969)

Issue: 3. (March)

First Page: 683

Last Page: 687

Title: Mineralogic Stratigraphic Marker in White Pine Group, Eastern Nevada: GEOLOGICAL NOTES

Author(s): D. M. Moore (2), D. M. Henderson (3)

Abstract:

The upper three-fourths of the White Pine Group (Late Mississippian) at four widely separated and representative sections in eastern Nevada is characterized by illitic mixed-layer clay, whereas the lower fourth is characterized by well-crystallized illite and, at two of the four sections, by dolomite. These distinctive mineral assemblages meet at a sharply defined, easily determinable boundary that can serve as a stratigraphic marker within this thick, in places poorly exposed, commonly lithologically similar sequence. This boundary can be extended westward to a fifth section if one accepts that the clay minerals in the fifth locality have been affected by incipient metamorphism.

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