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Geologic Unit: Worm Creek

Usage:

Worm Creek Quartzite Member of St. Charles Limestone (ID*,UT*)
Worm Creek Quartzite (UT)


Geologic age:

Late Cambrian*


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

Named from exposures on Worm Creek, Bear Lake Co., southeastern ID (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).


AAPG geologic province:

Snake River basin*
Wasatch uplift*


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 ([ ]).