Usage:
View Formation of Dove Creek Group (ID)
Geologic age:
Mississippian(?)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in SW/4 sec. 34, T. 11 S., R. 24 E., Cassia Co., ID. Named from town of View to the west, in Snake River Plain (Armstrong, 1968).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province
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