Usage:
Deep Creek Formation (ID*)
Subunits:
Delle Phosphatic Member (ID*).
Geologic age:
Mississippian, Early*
Osagean*
Mississippian, Late*
Meramecian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: measured in SW/4 NE/4 sec. 35, T. 9 S., R. 31 E., Deep Creek Mountains, 25 mi southwest of Pocatello, Power Co., eastern ID (Carr and Trimble, 1961).
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.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).