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Geologic Unit: Devil Creek

Usage:

Devil Creek Member of Henderson Canyon Formation (ID,UT)


Geologic age:

Mississippian, Early
Kinderhookian, late
Osagean


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: in S/2 sec. 12, T. 16 S., R. 35 E., Oneida Co., ID (Webster and others, 1987).
Reference section: at Leatham Hollow, UT (Webster and others, 1987).


AAPG geologic province:

Great Basin province
Wasatch uplift


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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