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Geologic Unit: Muldoon Canyon

Usage:

Muldoon Canyon Member of Argosy Creek Formation of Copper Basin Group (ID*)


Subunits:

Green Lake Limestone Bed.


Geologic age:

Early Mississippian (Kinderhookian)*


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

Type section: in W/2 sec. 19, T. 4 N., R. 22 E., and from E/2 NE/4 sec. 7 to center NE/4 SW/4 NE/4 sec. 8, 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 ([ ]).