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Geologic Unit: Shoshone Falls

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Shoshone Falls Andesite (ID) replaced with Idavada Volcanics. See Idavada.)


Geologic age:

Miocene(?)


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

Exposures at Shoshone Falls, located on Snake River, in T. 9 S., R. 18 E., Twin Falls and Jerome Cos., ID. Named from Shoshone Falls (Stearns, 1936, Table 1).


AAPG geologic 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 ([ ]).