Usage:
South Creek Formation of White Knob Group (ID,MT)
South Creek Formation (ID*)
Geologic age:
Late Mississippian (Chesterian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: South Creek, Lemhi Range, Butte Co., ID. Named from South Creek (Huh, 1967).
Reference section: in NW/4 NW/4 to SE/4 SE/4 sec. 25, T. 9 N., R. 26 E., Butte Co., ID (Mamet and others, 1971).
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.
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