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Carbonate Shelf Sequence - Dolomite, sandstone, and limestone (NVDcd;0)

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Sandstone

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Dolostone

Geologic Age

Early Devonian – Middle Devonian (422.4 Ma – 384.3 Ma ago)

Geologic Unit Label

Dcd

Crops out over the same area as unit Dc. Its primary formations are the Sevy Dolomite and the Nevada Formation (now abandoned). In White Pine County, there may be some undivided Guilmette Formation included with unit Dcd. Also included are the Lower Devonian Tor and McMonnigal Limestones in northern Nye County. The Simonson Dolomite is also included here as it is not differentiated in White Pine and Elko Counties. These rocks correspond to depositional sequences 6, 7, and 8 of Cook and Corboy (2004). Unit Dcd is overlain by unit Dc and is depositional on DSc. In White Pine County and most of Elko County, unit DSc is not broken out from unit SOc, hence the Devonian dolomite sequence appears to rest directly on SOc.

— USGS

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