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Sample USGS-D2381B

NavDat sample number 4961 · TUFF

Sample

Sample IDUSGS-D2381B
Rock nameTUFF
Rock typeVOLCANIC
CompositionFELSIC
MaterialIGNEOUS
Collected byR.C. Speed, Northwestern Univ.
CommentThis tuff is correlated with map unit Tv18 of Page 1959 and is correlated lithologically with tuff 20 km southwest of Candelaria on Nevada Highway 10 which gave the following ages: sanidine 22.2 +/- 0.6 2? m.y., plagioclase 22.9 +/- 1.3 2? m.y. Gilbert and others, 1968. Unit 9 is also known, informally, as the tuff of Candelaria Junction.

Location

Latitude38.1511
Longitude-118.061
LocationMineral County
State / provinceNevada
Volcanic fieldMina-Candelaria Region
Location commentapprox. 2.5 km ESE of Candelaria townsite

Age

Age (Ma)ErrorMinMaxGeologic ageDated by
22.2 21.4 23 R.F. Marvin, H.H. Mehnert, and V.M. Merritt, U.S. Geological Survey

Analyses

No chemical analyses are stored for this sample.

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