- Usage in publication:
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- Swisher Mountain Tuff*
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Tuff
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Snake River basin
- Great Basin province
Summary:
Named for exposures on Swisher Mountain, Owyhee Co, ID in the Snake River basin. Type locality designated as northern wall of Wood Canyon in SE1/4 sec 29, T5S, R5W where the tuff is 50 m thick. Rests on tuffaceous sedimentary rocks of Sucker Creek Formation. Is overlain by fan gravels and fanglomerate of late Pliocene or Quaternary age. Is a densely welded, simple cooling unit at type. Becomes a compound cooling unit westward into OR. Areal distribution map. Source area was at or near Juniper Mountain where it is about 200 m thick. Some of the vitrophyres are flow brecciated; others are massive. Has an average age (K-Ar on sanidine) of 13.85, or Miocene.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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