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Geologic Unit: Kenney

Usage:

No current usage[?]
(†Kenney Formation of Challis Volcanic Group (ID) considered abandoned? Uncertain if used by the ID Geol. Survey. Abandoned by the USGS.)


Geologic age:

Tertiary
Miocene


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

Not designated. Named from Kenney Creek, Lemhi Co., ID (Anderson, 1957).


AAPG geologic province:

Idaho Mountains province


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

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