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Abandonment of the Name Hartford Hill Rhyolitetuff and Adoption of New Formation Names for Middle Tertiary Ash-Flow Tuffs in the Carson City- Silver City Area, Nevada Abandonment of the Name Hartford Hill RhyoliteTuff and Adoption of New Formation Names for Middle Tertiary Ash-Flow Tuffs in the Carson City- Silver City Area, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1457-D Abandonment of the Name Hartford Hill Rhyolite Tuff and Adoption of New Formation Names for Middle Tertiary Ash-Flow Tuffs in the Carson City- Silver City Area, Nevada By EDWARD C. BINGLER CONTRIBUTIONS TO STRATIGRAPHY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1457-D UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1978 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CECIL D. ANDRUS, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY H. William Menard, Director Dingier, Edward C. Abandonment of the name Hartford Hill rhyolite tuff and adoption of new formation names for middle Tertiary ash-flow tuffs in the Carson City - Silver City area, Nevada (Contributions to stratigraphy) Geological Survey Bulletin 1457-D Supt. of Docs. No.: I 19.3: 1457-D Bibliography: p. D19 I. Geology, Stratigraphic-Tertiary. 2. Volcanic ash, tuff, etc.-Nevada- Carson City region. 3. Geology-Nevada-Carson City region. I. Title. II. Series. HI. Series: United States. Geological Survey. Bulletin 1457-D. QE75.B9 no. 1457-D [QE691] 557.3'08s [551.7'8] 78-606063 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office Washington, D. C. 20402 Stock Number 024-001-03124-8 CONTENTS Page Abstract___________________________________ Dl Introduction ______________________________________ 1 Acknowledgments ________________________________ 5 Ash-flow stratigraphy in the Carson City-Silver City area ___________ 7 Mickey Pass Tuff ________________________________ 7 Lenihan Canyon Tuff _____________________________ 8 Nine Hill Tuff _______________________________ 11 Eureka Canyon Tuff ______________________________ 14 Dacitetuff __________________________________ 16 Rhyolite tuff and augite rhyodacite tuff ___________________ 16 Santiago Canyon Tuff _____________________________ 17 References cited _____________________________^_____ 19 ILLUSTRATIONS Page FIGURE 1. Sketch map showing generalized distribution of 34- to 17-m.y.-old ash-flow tuffs assigned to the Hartford Hill Rhyolite Tuff __ D2 2. Sketch map showing generalized distribution of ash-flow tuffs pre­ viously assigned to the Hartford Hill Rhyolite Tuff within parts of the New Empire, Carson City, and Virginia City 7 Vi -minute quad­ rangles _________________________________ 4 3. Chart showing summary of stratigraphic nomenclature of tuffs in the Carson City-Silver City area __________________ 5 4. Stratigraphic correlation chart of ash-flow tuffs in the Carson City and New Empire 7 Vz -minute quadrangles _____________ 6 5. Generalized geologic map showing the distribution of the Lenihan Canyon Tuff in its type locality ___________________ 9 6. Generalized geologic map showing the distribution of the Nine Hill Tuff in its type locality ________________________ 12 7. Generalized geologic map showing the distribution of Eureka Can­ yon Tuff and Santiago Canyon Tuff in their type localities _ _ _ 15 m CONTRIBUTIONS TO STRATIGRAPHY ABANDONMENT OF THE NAME HARTFORD HILL RHYOLITE TUFF AND ADOPTION OF NEW FORMATION NAMES FOR MIDDLE TERTIARY ASH-FLOW TUFFS IN THE CARSON CITY-SILVER CITY AREA, NEVADA By EDWARD C. BINGLERI ABSTRACT The formation name Hartford Hill Rhyolite, first applied to exposures of welded tuff underlying Hartford Hill near Silver City, Nev., and subsequently revised to the Hartford Hill Rhyolite Tuff, has traditionally been applied to all silicic tuffs in west­ ern Nevada that form the base of the Tertiary section and underlie andesite flows and breccias of the Alta and Kate Peak Formations. Recent mapping in the Carson City-Silver City area reveals that rocks included within the Hartford Hill Rhyolite Tuff make up a diverse sequence, locally more than 800 m thick, of welded ash-flow tuffs ranging in age from 22 to 28 m.y., erupted from widely separated sources. Sev­ eral of these tuffs have recently been recognized and named in the Yerington area and mapped in the Gabbs Valley and Gillis Ranges. Four new formations are recog­ nized and named in the Carson City-Silver City area. As it is now clear that rocks previously assigned to the Hartford Hill include genetically and compositionally un­ related ash-flow tuff cooling units of formation rank, no useful purpose is served by continuing the use of this formation name, and it is herein abandoned. Ash-flow units mapped in the Carson City-Silver City area and described in this report are, from oldest to youngest: Mickey Pass Tuff; Lenihan Canyon Tuff (new name); Nine Hill Tuff (new name); Eureka Canyon Tuff (new name); a thin ero- sional remnant of biotite dacite crystal tuff tentatively correlated with a similar tuff in the northern Gillis Range; thin and discontinuous erosional remnants of rhyolite and rhyodacite tuff correlated with similar rocks in the Gillis and Gabbs Valley Ranges; and the Santiage Canyon Tuff (new name). INTRODUCTION For the past 20 years, it has been common stratigraphic practice to assign all Tertiary silicic ash-flow tuffs (fig. 1) that underlie andesite flows and breccias of the Alta and Kate Peak Formations of central- 'Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nev. 89557. Dl D2 CONTRIBUTIONS TO STRATIGRAPHY 120 119 EXPLANATION Hartford Hill Rhyolite Tuff as mapped by Moore (1969), Bonham (1969), and others 40C Type locality of Hartford Hill Rhyolite Tuff Canyon - Pah Rah «SP-- NEVADA ,,t Range ^i^xPainted Rock Reno ,,©, .** A<*' ,\<* CARSON £ ..' O CITY ;- Virginia City * QUAD- 5 o .' ' £ RANGMt-_v Silver'City , "N3 - \\ Ma-ajiwsi®*#&Q,> > ,.'" *& Terrill /Mountains ./". Q, :'NEV\r X : EMPIRE % :QUAD- 39 E RANGLE 10 MILES 10 KILOMETERS FIGURE 1. Generalized distribution of 34 to 27-m.y.-old ash-flow tuffs (modified from Stewart and Carlson, 1976) assigned to the Hartford Hill Rhyolite Tuff. Tuffs in the Gillis and Gabbs Valley Ranges are laterally equivalent to tuffs in the Wassuk and Singatse Ranges assigned to the Hartford Hill by Moore (1969). western Nevada to the Hartford Hill Rhyolite Tuff. Gianella (1936, p. 47) originally coined the name Hartford Hill Rhyolite for expo­ sures of rhyolite in the Silver City mining district. He did not desig­ nate a type section but reported that the rhyolite underlies Hartford Hill, a small knoll about 1.6 km northwest of Silver City. Thompson NEW FORMATION NAMES FOR ASH-FLOW TUFFS, NEVADA D3 (1956, p. 50), in mapping the geology of the Virginia City 15-minute quadrangle, designated the hill as the type locality. Recognizing that nearly all of the Hartford Hill Rhyolite was of pyroclastic origin, he modified the formation name to Hartford Hill Rhyolite Tuff to bet­ ter represent the lithologic types present. Bonham (1969) and Moore (1969) included in the Hartford Hill thick isolated sections of tuff as far north as Pyramid Lake and as far east as the Terrill Mountains (fig. 1). Recent mapping of pyroclastic rocks in west-central Nevada pre­ viously assigned to the Hartford Hill employs the principles and techniques of ash-flow stratigraphy based on the classic studies of Smith (1960a, b) and Ross and Smith (1961). Bingler (1973) de­ scribed four compositionally and texturally distinct ash-flow tuffs in the Wassuk Range that make up the section of rock assigned by Moore (1969) to the Hartford Hill Rhyolite Tuff. Wallace (1975) rec­ ognized siz ash-flow tuff cooling units ranging in age from 28 to 22 m.y. at Rainbow Canyon southwest of Pyramid Lake in tuffs pre­ viously mapped as Hartford Hill Rhyolite by Bonham (1969). A thick section of ash-flow tuffs in the Singatse Range, earlier assigned to the Hartford Hill by Moore (1969), was subdivided by Proffett and Proffett (1976) into four compositionally and texturally distinct tuffs ranging in age from 28 to 24 m.y.: the Mickey Pass Tuff, the Singatse Tuff, the Bluestone Mine Tuff, and the tuff and breccia of Gallagher Pass. Ekren and others (E. B. Ekren, written commun., 1976), in mapping five 15-minute quadrangles in the Gillis and Gabbs Valley Ranges, identified a large number of ash-flow cooling units in addition to the Mickey Pass and the Singatse Tuffs. Direct field evidence for cauldron sources related to any one of the cooling units described is rare. The areal distribution of the princi­ pal ash-flow sheets and the distribution of locally thick stratigraphic sections suggest that (1) the Mickey Pass and Singatse Tuffs were erupted from a source region in the Singatse Range-Wassuk Range area and (2) several of the ash-flow tuff sheets mapped by Ekren and others (E. B. Ekren, written commun., 1976) occupy a broad regional depression or source region centered on the southern Gillis-northern Gabbs Valley Range area. Recently completed mapping by Bingler (1978) and Trexler (1978) near the type locality of the Hartford Hill Rhyolite Tuff re­ veals that rocks previously assigned to this formation consist of a thick section of Mickey Pass Tuff, thin distal edges of ash-flow tuffs mapped in the Gillis and Gabbs Valley Ranges, and four ash-flows of formation rank named in this report (figs. 2, 3, and 4). Three of the four newly named formations are related to cauldron sources in the Carson City-Silver City area; they range in age from 26 to 22 m.y. D4 CONTRIBUTIONS TO STRATIGRAPHY 0> ^ NEW FORMATION NAMES FOR ASH-FLOW TUFFS, NEVADA D5 Gianella (1936) Thompson (1956) This report Hartford Santiago Canyon Hill Tuff 1 Rhyolite Unnamed tuffs Eureka Canyon Tuff 1 Hartford Hill Rhyolite Tuff Nine Hill Tuff H atus Lenihan-Canyon Tuff
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