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Geologic Unit: Hog Creek

Usage:

Hog Creek Member of Poison Creek Formation of Idaho Group (ID)


Geologic age:

Tertiary
Pliocene


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

Type section: Exposed between Warm Spring Creek and Dead Indian Ridge (Savage, 1968).


AAPG geologic province:

Snake River basin


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

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