< Nevada Obsidian Source Index

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)
Anchorite Hills --
Badger Creek --
Bordwell Spring Duck Flat
Home Camp A
Summit Spring Canyon
Also see BS/PP/FM source
Box Springs Box Spring
Browns Bench (Nevada and Idaho) Brown's Bench
Jackpot
BS/PP/FM (Bordwell Spring, Fox Mountain, Pinto Peak)
[Combined geochemical source]
Bordwell Spring
Fox Mountain
Hart Mountain
Pinto Peak
Buckboard Mesa --
Buffalo Hills South Warners 2
Unknown B
Butte Mountain Butte Mountains
Castle Mountain Juan
Catnip Mountain --
C. B. Concrete CB Concrete
Coyote Spring --
Cloverdale Canyon A Group 1
Cloverdale Canyon B --
Crow Spring Crow Springs
Dead Horse Flat --
Devil Peak East Devil Peak
Devil Peak West Devil Peak
Umpire
Dolly Varden Basin --
Double H Double H Mountain
Double H Mountains Double H/Whitehorse
Double Hot Springs --
Dry Valley --
Ferguson Wash (Nevada and Utah) Dead Cedar Wash
Fish Lake Valley A --
Fish Lake Valley B --
Fox Mountain Grass Valley Spring
Also see BS/PP/FM source
Garfield Hills Hawthorne
Goldfield Hills Stonewall Flat
Tub Spring
Tubb Spring
Juan Hart
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
Sand Spring
South Hanging Rock
Stevens Camp
Virgin Valley
Windmill Quarry
Vya
See Oregon source list
Modena Dry Valley
Panaca
Panaca Summit
Piñon Point
See Utah source list
Montezuma Range --
Mosquito Lake Mosquito Creek
Mt. Hicks --
Mt. Majuba Majuba Mountain
Seven Troughs
Nut Mountain --
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
Obsidian Butte, NV, Variety 3 (Obsidian Butte) Obsidian Butte, Obsidian Butte Area
Obsidian Butte Variety H-5
Sarcobatus Flat B
Sarcobatus Flats
Tolicha Wash
Obsidian Butte, NV, Variety 4 (Obsidian Butte) Obsidian Butte, Obsidian Butte Area
Obsidian Butte Variety H-5
Sarcobatus Flat B
Obsidian Butte, NV, Variety 5 (Unknown C) North Obsidian Butte, Obsidian Butte Area
Stonewall Canyon
Unknown C
Oreana Oreana Bridge
Pancake Mountains --
Paradise Valley Black Ridge
Chimney Creek Reservoir
Paradise
Patrick Variety 1 --
Patrick Variety 2 --
Pine Grove Hills See Bodie Hills (California)
Pinto Peak Hog Ranch
Also see BS/PP/FM source
Poker Brown Gap --
Poker Brown Wash --
Queen (Nevada and California) Queen Valley
Truman
Truman Meadows
Rabbit Hole --
Roach Lake Devil Peak East Variety 2?
Sentinel Peak --
Shoshone Mountain Fortymile
Fortymile Wash
Fortymile/Topopah/Yucca Wash
Lathrop Wells
Shoshone
Shoshone Peak
Topopah
Yucca Mountain
Yucca Wash
Silverpeak Silver Peak
Soldier Creek --
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 --

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Last Updated: 03/13/2008