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Geologic Units: Missouri Ridge
Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Missouri Ridge Formation*
  • Modifications:
    • [Principal reference]
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Metasiltite
    • Marble
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Idaho Mountains province
Publication:

Lund, Karen, 2004, Geology of the Payette National Forest and vicinity, west-central Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1666, 89 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:100,000)


Summary:

Pgs. 4 (fig. A3), 9 (fig. A5), 10 (fig. A6), 13, 60, pl. 2 (geologic map). Missouri Ridge Formation of Windermere Supergroup. [See also entry under Windermere.] Carbonaceous metasiltite and thinly layered calc-silicate-bearing marble in 5- to 15-m-thick [16+ to 49+ feet-thick] compositional zones. Estimated total thickness about 450 m [1,475+ feet]. Overlies Moores Lake Formation (new) of Windermere Supergroup; contact is narrow gradational zone of calc-silicate-dominant metasiltites. Unconformably(?) underlies Umbrella Butte Formation (new) of Windermere Supergroup. Age is Neoproterozoic.
Type section: exposures on Missouri Ridge in northern Stibnite roof pendant, northwest corner Stibnite 7.5-min quadrangle, [Payette National Forest], west-central ID (Lund, 2004, fig. A6, loc. 5).
Named from Missouri Ridge, [in S/2 sec. 9, T. 19 N., R. 9E., approx. Lat. 44 deg. 59 min. 45 sec. N., Long. 115 deg. 21 min. 56 sec. W.], northwest corner Stibnite 7.5-min quadrangle, [Payette National Forest], west-central ID (Lund, 2004).
[Additional locality information from USGS historical topographic map collection TopoView and USGS GNIS database, accessed January 31, 2025.]

Source: Publication.


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Missouri Ridge Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Not used
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Idaho Mountains province
Publication:

Stewart, D.E., Stewart, E.D., Lewis, R.S., Weppner, K.N., and Isakson, V.H., 2016, Geologic map of the Stibnite quadrangle, Valley County, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey Geologic Map, GM-51, 2 sheets, scale 1:24,000


Summary:

Missouri Ridge Formation of Windermere Supergroup (Lund, 2004) not used in geologic map of Stibnite 7.5-min quadrangle. Rocks reallocated to informal map units (descending): unnamed Cambrian or Ordovician(?) middle marble; Neoproterozoic Fern marble of Smitherman (1985 Univ. Idaho MS thesis) in Windermere(?) Supergroup; unnamed Neoproterozoic lower calc-silicate in Windermere(?) Supergroup.

Source: Publication.


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