Usage:
Latah Formation (ID*,WA*)
Subunits:
Vantage Member (ID*,WA*).
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Miocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Typical exposure on slope west of Latah Creek [now Hangman Creek], a short distance south of Spokane, Spokane Co., eastern WA (Pardee and Bryan, 1926).
AAPG geologic province:
Eastern Columbia basin*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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