Usage:
Badger Gulch Formation (ID*,UT*)
Geologic age:
early Permian (early Leonardian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (composite): lower part, exposures on a ridge southwest of the confluence of A.H. Creek and Third Fork, in S/2 sec. 17, T. 14 S., R. 19 E., Pike Mountain and Trapper Creek quadrangles; upper part, exposures on a northwest-facing ridge on the south side of Badger Gulch, in NW/4 sec. 20, T. 15 S., R. 20 E., Mahogany Butte quadrangle, Cassia Co., ID (Mytton and others, 1983).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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