Usage:
No current usage.
(†Bliss Basalt (ID) replaced with †Bancroft Springs Basalt, which was later abandoned and replaced with McKinney Basalt. See McKinney.)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: exposures at Bliss Cone and Bliss Bridge, in sec. 11, T. 6 S., R. 12 E., Twin Falls Co., also at Bliss Spring, Gooding Co., southern ID (Stearns, 1936).
AAPG geologic province:
Snake River basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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