Usage:
Scorpion Mountain Member of Argosy Creek Formation (ID*)
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian (Kinderhookian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: on ridge crest above south tributary of Little Copper Creek and along ridge, from SW/4 NW/4 sec. 25, T. 4 N., R. 21 E. to NE/4 SE/4 sec. 19, T. 4 N., R. 22 E., Custer and Blaine Cos., 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.
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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).