“…Quartzite is a well-known component of the Ordovician System in the Cordilleran miogeosyncline, where it composes large parts of the following formations: Eureka Quartzite (Hague, 1883;IGrk, 1933;Webb, 1958 ;Nolan and others, 1956), Swan Peak Quartzite (Richardson, 1913;R. J. Ross, Jr., 1951), Kinnikinic Quartzite (C. P. Ross, 1934Ross, , 1937, Toquima Formation (Ferguson, 1924), Convict Lake Formation (Rinehart and Ross, 1964), Johnson Spring Formation , W onah Quartzite (Walcott, 1924), and Mt. Wilson Quartzite (Norford, 1966).…”