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Geologic Unit: Dove Creek

Usage:

Dove Creek Group (ID)
[?] Dove Creek Formation (ID,UT?)


Subunits:

GROUP STATUS (alphabetical) --all in ID: Cassia Dolomite, Conner Creek Formation, Dayley Creek Quartzite, Elba Quartzite, Harrison Summit Quartzite, Land Creek Formation, View Formation.


Geologic age:

Cambrian
Ordovician
Silurian
Devonian
Mississippian(?)
Pennsylvanian


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

Not designated (Armstrong, 1968).


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.

"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 ([ ]).