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Geologic Unit: Iron Bog Creek

Usage:

Iron Bog Creek Member of Argosy Creek Formation of Copper Basin Group (ID*)


Geologic age:

Middle to Late Mississippian (Meramecian to Chesterian)*


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

Type section: from W/2 sec. 9 to SW/4 NE/4 SE/4 sec. 9, T. 4 N., R. 22 E., Custer Co., ID (Paull and others, 1972).


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.

"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 ([ ]).