| Wood Canyon Formation | |
| Type: | Geologic formation |
| Age: | Ediacaran-Cambrian |
| Period: | Cambrian |
| Region: | Mojave Desert, California and Nevada |
| Country: | United States |
| Underlies: | Zabriskie Quartzite Formation |
| Overlies: | Sterling Quartzite Formation |
| Thickness: | 0feet-2500feetft (-ft) |
The Wood Canyon Formation is a geologic formation in the northern Mojave Desert of Inyo County, California and Nye County and Clark County, Nevada.[1] [2]
It can be seen in the Panamint Range and Funeral Mountains adjoining Death Valley, within Death Valley National Park; and in the Spring Mountains in Clark County.[1]
The 570+ million years old formation underlies the Zabriskie Quartzite Formation, and overlies the Stirling Quartzite Formation.[1] [3]
It has members of quartzite, shale, sandstone, and dolomite.[1]
It preserves scattered olenellid trilobite and archaeocyathid fossils in upper part of formation, dating back to the Ediacaran period of the Neoproterozoic Era and Lower Cambrian Period of the Paleozoic Era.[1] [2] [4]