Usage:
Fort Hall Member of Thaynes Formation (ID*)
Geologic age:
Early Triassic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from old Fort Hall in valley of Lincoln Creek, Bingham Co., southeastern ID (Mansfield, 1916; see also Mansfield, 1920, USGS Bull. 713, pl. 3 geol. map).
[Fort Hall No. 2 Historic Site at confluence of Cold and Lincoln Creeks, in NE/4 sec. 24, T. 3 S., R. 36 E., Yandell Springs 15-min quadrangle, Bingham Co., southeastern ID.]
AAPG geologic province:
Snake River basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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