Usage:
Cash Creek Quartzite (ID*)
Geologic age:
Early(?) or Middle Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in steep cliffs on west side of Squaw Creek [now Paasasikwana Naokwaide], about 0.25 mi south of mouth of Cash Creek, [in NE/4 sec. 29, T. 12 N., R. 17 E., approx. Lat. 44 deg. 20 min. 40 sec. N., Long. 114 deg. 28 min. 50 sec. W., Clayton 7.5-min quadrangle (2023 ed.), Salmon-Challis National Forest], Custer Co., central ID. Named from Cash Creek (Hobbs and others, 1968).
[Additional locality information from USGS GNIS database and USGS historical topographic map collection TopoView, accessed on September 4, 2023. Geographic feature Squaw Creek renamed Paasasikwana Naokwaide (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, September 2022, USGS GNIS FeatureID 391283) in accordance with the Department of the Interior's Secretarial Order 3404.]
AAPG geologic province:
Idaho Mountains province*
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