The National Geologic Map Database is migrating to a new infrastructure. We apologize for any service disruptions during this process.

U.S. Geological Survey Home AASG Logo USGS HOME CONTACT USGS SEARCH USGS
National Geologic Map Database
Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Land Creek Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Schist
    • Limestone
  • 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:

Named as one of eight formations of Dove Creek Group (new) for exposures in the Albion Range between saddle 1.8 mi north of Mount Harrison in E1/2 sec 32, T12S, R24E and basin of Land Creek on west side of range in E1/2 sec 1, T13S, R23E, secs 6 and 7, T13S, R24E, Cassia Co, ID in the Great Basin province. No type locality designated. Geologic map; mapped at northwest part of Albion Range area. Overlies Ordovician and Cambrian Harrison Summit Quartzite (new) of Dove Creek Group; lower contact placed at base of schist or carbonate with massive quartzite of Harrison Summit. Underlies Ordovician Dayley Creek Quartzite (new) of Dove Creek Group; upper contact placed at base of quartzite. Is about 1,500 ft thick. Consists of blue-gray limestone and an overlying graphitic staurolite-garnet-muscovite-quartz schist near Land Creek. Three mi away north of Mount Harrison, the only carbonate is porphyroblasts of calcite in biotite-muscovite-quartz schist near base; the overlying part is garnet and staurolite-bearing, biotite-muscovite-quartz schist (without graphite) and micaceous conglomeratic quartzite interbeds. Ordovician to Cambrian age.

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


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

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

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).