Usage:
Trail Creek Formation (ID*)
Geologic age:
Silurian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures on west bank of Trail Creek, in T. 5 N., R. 18 E., Blaine Co., ID (Westgate and Ross, 1930).
Type locality stated to be exposures on Trail Creek (Ross, 1934).
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.
"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 ([ ]).