A view of the Carson Plains from the Sutro Springs source area located near Dayton, Nevada.

Nevada Obsidian Sources

SOURCE NAME: Most commonly-used source name for the geochemical source
OTHER NAMES: Alternate names or names of source outcrops belonging to same geochemical source group
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SOURCE NAME (CHEMICAL GROUP) OTHER NAME(S)
Badger Creek --
Bodie Hills (See California) Pine Grove Hills
Bordwell Spring (also see BS/PP/FM source) Duck Flat
Home Camp A
Summit Spring Canyon
Box Spring, Monitor Valley Box Springs
Browns Bench (Nevada and Idaho) Brown's Bench
Jackpot
BS/PP/FM (Bordwell Spring, Fox Mountain, Pinto Peak)
[Combined geochemical source]
Bordwell Spring
Dolly Varden Basin
Fox Mountain
Hart Mountain
Pinto Peak
Buffalo Hills South Warners 2
Unknown B
Butte Mountain Butte Mountains
Cave Spring Vitrophyre --
Castle Mountain Cedar Dome
Hart
Juan
C. B. Concrete CB Concrete
Coyote Spring Nut Mountain?
Cloverdale Canyon A Group 1
Cloverdale Canyon B --
Crow Spring Crow Springs
Desatoya Mountains Vitrophyre --
Devil Peak East Devil Peak
Devil Peak West Devil Peak
Umpire
Double H/Whitehorse Double H
Double H Mountain
Double H Mountains
Ferguson Wash (Nevada and Utah) Dead Cedar Wash
Fox Mountain (also see BS/PP/FM source) Grass Valley Spring
Garfield Hills Hawthorne
Goldfield Hills Stonewall Flat
Tub Spring
Tubb Spring
Hawks Valley (Nevada and Oregon) --
Kane Springs Wash Caldera Variety 1 Delamar Mountains
Kane Springs C
Kane Springs Variety C
Kane Springs Wash Caldera Variety 1, NV
Kane Springs Wash Caldera Variety 2 (Kane Springs) Kane Spring
Kane Springs
Kane Springs A
Kane Springs Variety A
Kane Springs Wash
Kane Springs Wash Caldera Variety 2
Kane Springs Wash Caldera Variety 2, NV
Long Valley Lake Parman Area Unknown 4
Massacre Lake/Guano Valley (Nevada and Oregon) Borax Works C (Oregon)
Catnip Mountain
Denio
Dufferena
Grassy Ranch
Guano Slough (Oregon)
Guano Valley (Oregon)
Horse Canyon Spring
IXL
Massacre Creek
Nut Mountain?
Sand Spring
South Hanging Rock
Stevens Camp
Virgin Valley
Windmill Quarry
Vya
Meadow Valley Mountains Vitrophyre --
Modena (Nevada and Utah) Dry Valley
Panaca
Panaca Summit
Piñon Point
Montezuma Range --
Mosquito Lake Mosquito Creek
Mt. Hicks Anchorite Hills
Mt. Majuba Majuba Mountain
Oreana
Poker Brown Gap
Poker Brown Wash
Seven Troughs
Oak Spring Butte, NV Dead Horse Flat
Grouse Canyon
Split Ridge/Pahute Mesa
Tub Spring
Tubb Spring
Obsidian Butte, NV, Variety 1 --
Obsidian Butte, NV, Variety 2 (Airfield Canyon) Airfield Canyon
Airfield Canyon, Obsidian Butte Area
Obsidian Butte Variety H-3
Sarcobatus Flat A
Sarcobatus Flats
Tolicha Wash
White Rock Canyon?
Obsidian Butte, NV, Variety 3 (Obsidian Butte) Obsidian Butte, Obsidian Butte Area
Obsidian Butte Variety H-5
Sarcobatus Flat B
Sarcobatus Flats
Tolicha Wash White Rock Canyon?
Obsidian Butte, NV, Variety 4 (Obsidian Butte) Obsidian Butte, Obsidian Butte Area
Obsidian Butte Variety H-5
Sarcobatus Flat B White Rock Canyon?
Obsidian Butte, NV, Variety 5 (Unknown C) North Obsidian Butte, Obsidian Butte Area
Stonewall Canyon
Unknown C
Oreana Oreana Bridge
Pancake Range? --
Paradise Valley Black Ridge
Chimney Creek Reservoir
Paradise
Patrick --
Pierson Summit --
Pinto Peak (also see BS/PP/FM source) Hog Ranch
Queen (Nevada and California) Queen Valley
Truman
Truman Meadows
Roach Lake Devil Peak East Variety 2?
Shoshone Mountain Buckboard Mesa?
Fortymile
Fortymile Wash
Fortymile/Topopah/Yucca Wash
Lathrop Wells
Shoshone
Shoshone Peak
Topopah
Yucca Mountain
Yucca Wash
Silverpeak Fish Lake Valley
Silver Peak
South Kawich Range, NV Apache Tear Canyon
Kawich Range
South Pahroc South Pahroc, NV
South Pahroc Range
Sutro Springs Asshole Mountain
Double Springs
Flowery Range
Tempiute Mountain Butte Valley Unknown B
Timpahute Range
White Rock Canyon, Monitor Valley --

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Last Updated: 03/23/2009