Usage:
Gallagher Peak Sandstone Member of Snaky Canyon Formation (ID*)
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (=type section of Juniper Gulch Member); incomplete, beds overturned: about halfway between Snaky Canyon and Juniper Gulch, in sec. 21, T. 9 N., R. 32 E., [in vicinity of Lat. 44 deg. 05 min. 26 sec. N., Long. 112 deg. 42 min. 22 sec. W.], Snaky Canyon 7.5-min quadrangle, [Targhee National Forest], Clark Co., ID. Named from exposures on Gallagher Peak, in secs. 29 and 30 (unsurveyed), T. 10 N., R. 31 E., [Lat. 44 deg. 10 min. 02 sec. N., Long. 112 deg. 47 min. 22 sec. W.], Cooper Mountain 7.5-min quadrangle, [Targhee National Forest], Clark Co., ID (Skipp and others, 1979).
AAPG geologic province:
Idaho Mountains province*
Snake River basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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