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Geologic Unit: Shoshone Lake

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Shoshone Lake Tuff Member of Plateau Rhyolite (WY) reallocated to Central Plateau Member of Plateau Rhyolite. See Central Plateau.)


Geologic age:

Pleistocene


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: in gully north of Fall Creek and west of Shoshone Lake Geyser basin, Yellowstone National Park, northwestern WY (Christiansen and Blank, 1972).


AAPG geologic province:

Yellowstone province


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

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