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  • Usage in publication:
    • Minidoka basalt*
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Basalt
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Snake River basin
Publication:

Stearns, H.T., 1936, Origin of the large springs and their alcoves along the Snake River in southern Idaho: Journal of Geology, v. 44, no. 4, p. 429-450.


Summary:

Pg. 434-439; H.T. Stearns, 1932 (Corr. chart of Idaho compiled by M.G. Wilmarth, dated Sept. 1, 1932). Minidoka basalt. Vesicular, blue, pahoehoe basalt containing tiny crystals of olivine and thinly covered with loess. Thickness 30+/- feet. Overlies conformably the capping gravel member of the beds deposited in lake behind the Sand Spring lava dam. Older than Wendell Grade basalt and younger than Burley lake beds. Age is Pleistocene.
Named from Minidoka dam, Minidoka Co., southern ID. Probably issued from one of cones near Minidoka.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1381).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Minidoka basalt*
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Snake River basin
Publication:

Stearns, H.T., Crandall, Lynn, and Steward, W.G., 1938, Geology and ground-water resources of the Snake River Plain in southeastern Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper, 774, 268 p.


Summary:

Pg. 29, 83-84, pl. 4. Minidoka basalt. Thickness about 30 feet. Younger than Burley lake beds and Sand Springs basalt; older than Wendell Grade basalt. Age is Pleistocene, based on vertebrate fossils in an underlying gravel, 11 feet thick, deposited after Burley lake beds.
Extends for 5 mi along north shore of Lake Walcott Reservoir upstream from Minidoka dam.

Source: Publication; US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 2519); GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


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