Usage:
Starlight Formation (ID*)
Subunits:
Arbon Valley Tuff Member*.
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Miocene, late*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: Starlight Creek, about 10 mi southeast of American Falls, in T. 10 S., R. 33 E., Arbon quadrangle, Power Co., ID. Named from Starlight Creek (Carr and Trimble, 1963).
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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