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  • Usage in publication:
    • Dove Creek Group
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Quartzite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Armstrong, R.L., 1968, Mantled gneiss domes in the Albion Range, southern Idaho: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 79, no. 10, p. 1295-1314.


Summary:

Name applied to Paleozoic rocks unconformably above the Precambrian Green Creek Complex in south-central ID in the Great Basin province. Includes (ascending): Elba Quartzite (new), a quartzite of Cambrian? age; Conner Creek Formation (new), a schist, quartzite, marble, and dolomite unit of Cambrian and Ordovician age; Harrison Summit Quartzite (new), a quartzite of Cambrian and Ordovician age; Land Creek Formation (new), a schist and limestone unit of Cambrian and Ordovician age; Dayley Creek Quartzite (new), a quartzite of Ordovician age; Cassia Dolomite (new), a dolomite of Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian age; View Formation (new), a schist and quartzite unit of Mississippian? age; and the Oquirrh? Formation, a limestone, marble, quartzite, schist, sandstone, dolomite unit of Pennsylvanian age. Source of name not stated. Type section not designated. Name used in Albion Range, Cassia Co, ID in the Great Basin province. Geologic map; formations individually mapped. Ranges in age from Cambrian? to Pennsylvanian age. Overlies the newly named Green Creek Complex of Precambrian age. Oquirrh? is the youngest formation mapped.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


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