<b>Mount Dunfee</b>, Esmeralda County, Nevada.

Eastern Mojave Vegetation

Mount Dunfee, Esmeralda County, Nevada.

Gazetteer Query: G.N.I.S. See also: Gold Point.
	Mountain southeast of Gold Point. Ediacaran-Cambrian strata in the Great Basin of Nevada and California were deposited on the western margin of Laurentia (present coordinates) during the rift-drift transition, with the strata at Mount Dunfee representing one of the most distal, carbonate-dominated sections that is preserved. The Ediacaran to lower Cambrian Deep Spring Formation consists of three members: the Dunfee (lower), Esmeralda (middle), and Gold Point (upper) Members, which are also exposed in the White-Inyo Mountains (Smith, et al., 2016) Elevation: 6942ft, 2116m. Articles that refer to this location: Inyo-White Geology -- A Botanist's View: 148160; Edicarian; Literature Referring To This Location: Smith, E. F., L.L. Nelson, M.A. Strange, A.E. Eyster, S.M. Rowland, D.P. Schrag, and F.A. Macdonald. 2016. The end of the Ediacaran: Two new exceptionally preserved body fossil assemblages from Mount Dunfee, Nevada, USA. Geology. 44(11):911-914. {TAS-pdf}
	No collections made at this location.
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