Usage:
No current usage.
(†Pillar Falls Mudflow (ID) replaced with Idavada Volcanics. See Idavada.)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Miocene(?)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
At Pillar Falls, located on Snake River, in sec. 35, T. 9 S., R. 17 E., Jerome and Twin Falls Co., ID. Named from Pillar Falls (Stearns, Table 1).
AAPG geologic province:
Snake River basin
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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