Usage:
Saturday Mountain Formation (ID*)
Subunits:
Lost River Member*.
Geologic age:
Middle Ordovician to early Silurian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Saturday Mountain Ridge, west of lower Squaw Creek [now Paasasikwana Naokwaide], in T. 11 N., R. 17 E., Bayhorse quadrangle (scale 1:125,000), Custer Co., ID. Named from Saturday Mountain Ridge (Ross, 1934).
[Geographic feature Squaw Creek renamed Paasasikwana Naokwaide (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, September 2022, USGS GNIS FeatureID 391283) in accordance with the Department of the Interior's Secretarial Order 3404.]
AAPG geologic province:
Idaho Mountains province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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