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Geologic Unit: Wilson Creek

Usage:

Wilson Creek Member of Wood River Formation of Sun Valley Group (ID*)


Geologic age:

early Permian (Wolfcampian and Leonardian)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: is upper part of measured section of Hall and others (1974) at Seamans Creek, north of Bellevue, in sec. 21, T. 3 N., R. 19 E., Blaine Co., ID (Mahoney and others, 1991).


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.

"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 ([ ]).