Usage:
Swisher Mountain Tuff (ID*,NV*,OR*)
Swisher Mountain Rhyolite (ID*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Miocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Northern wall of Wood Canyon, on the road between the De Lamar Mine (open-pit silver mine), ID, and the village of Jordan Valley, OR, in SE/4 sec. 29, T. 5 S., R. 5 W., [Stonehouse Creek 7.5-min quadrangle], Owyhee Co., ID. Named from Swisher Mountain (Ekren and others, 1984).
AAPG geologic province:
Snake River basin*
Great Basin province*
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 ([ ]).