Usage:
/Gold Creek greenstone (informal) (OR-recognized locally south of Wallowa Mountains)
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized. [Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Gold Creek Quartzite by Sampson (1928) in ID.]
Geologic age:
Triassic, Late
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from Gold Creek, a south-flowing tributary of Paddy Creek, in secs. 3, 4, 10, and 15, T. 7 S., R. 44 E., approx. Lat. 44 deg. 58 min. 35 sec., N., Long. 117 deg. 19 min. 05 min. W., Whitman National Forest, Sparta Butte 7.5-min quadrangle, Baker Co., OR (Prostka, 1962).
AAPG geologic province:
Snake River basin
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