Geological Survey Bulletin 1386 Silurian, Devonian, and Mississippian Formations of the Funeral Mountains in the Ryan Quadrangle, Death Valley Region, California

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Abstract

Introduction
     Acknowledgments

Silurian and Devonian Systems
     Hidden Valley Dolomite
          Lower member (Silurian)
          Upper member (Silurian? and Devonian)

Devonian System
     Lost Burro Formation

Mississippian System
     Tin Mountain Limestone
     Perdido Formation

Register of fossil collections cited

References cited

PLATE

1. Columnar section of Silurian, Devonian, and Mississippian rocks in the Ryan quadrangle, California

2. Columnar section of the Hidden Valley Dolomite on spur 4298, southeast end of the Funeral Mountains, Ryan quadrangle, California

3. Stratigraphic distribution of fossils in the Tin Mountain Limestone and the lower part of the Perdido Formation, of Mississippian age, southeastern Funeral Mountains (omitted from the online edition)

FIGURE

1. Index map of the Ryan quadrangle

2—7. Photographs of:

2. Stratigraphic sequence on Schwaub Peak

3. Hidden Valley Dolomite 2 miles northwest of Pyramid Peak

4. Thin-bedded dolomite and dark-gray chert near base of Hidden Valley Dolomite

5. Lost Burro Formation on Hidden Valley Dolomite, northwest side of Bat Mountain block

6. Lost Burro Formation capped by Tin Mountain Limestone, southwest side of Bat Mountain block

7. Tin Mountain Limestone at hill 2997, southeast end of Funeral Mountains

TABLES

TABLE

1. Precambrian and Paleozoic formations of the Funeral Mountains in the Ryan quadrangle

2. Ostracodes in collection 12858—PC, Tin Mountain Limestone, listed by I. G. Sohn, showing range in age of close relatives

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
ROGERS C. B. MORTON, Secretary

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
V. E. McKelvey, Director

Library of Congres catalog-card No. 73-600357

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