Roadside Geology of Idaho
by Paul K. Link, Shawn Willsey, and Keegan Schmidt
Roadside Geology of Idaho
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| IDAHO GEOLOGY MAP |
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| PREFACE |
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| INTRODUCTION |
1
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| Geology Basics |
2
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| Plate Tectonics |
5
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| Idaho's Geologic History |
6
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| SNAKE RIVER PLAIN |
15
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| Yellowstone Hotspot |
16
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| Basaltic Volcanism |
19
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| Lake Idaho |
22
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| Owyhee Mountains |
24
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| Bonneville Flood |
24
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| GUIDES TO THE SNAKE RIVER PLAIN |
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| I-15: Pocatello - Idaho Falls - Monida Pass at Montana Border |
26
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| I-84: Oregon Border - Boise - Twin Falls - I-86 Junction |
31
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| Malad Gorge of Thousand Springs State Park |
37
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| I-86: I-84 Junction - Pocatello |
40
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| US 20: Mountain Home - Carey |
43
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| US 20: Arco - Idaho Falls |
47
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| US 20: Idaho Falls - Montana Border |
50
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| 1976 Teton Dam Disaster |
52
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| Mesa Falls Scenic Byway |
53
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| US 26: US 20 Junction - Blackfoot |
56
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| US 30: Bliss - Twin Falls |
58
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| Bliss Slide |
61
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| Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument |
63
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| Ritter Island and Box Canyon |
63
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| US 93: Jackpot, Nevada - Shoshone - Arco |
66
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| Snake River Canyon |
70
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| Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve |
74
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| US 95: Oregon Border - Weiser |
78
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| ID 32 (Teton Scenic Byway): Tetonia - Ashton |
81
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| ID 33: US 26 Junction - Howe - Rexburg |
83
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| ID 22 to Dubois |
86
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| Menan Buttes |
87
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| ID 46: Wendell - Fairfield |
88
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| Little City of Rocks |
89
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| ID 51: Nevada Border - Mountain Home |
90
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| ID 75: Shoshone - Timmerman Junction |
94
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| Black Magic Canyon |
96
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| ID 78: Marsing - Hammett |
97
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| Lizard Butte |
99
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| Upper Reynolds Creek Road |
100
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| Celebration Park |
101
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| Bruneau Dunes State Park |
102
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| BASIN AND RANGE |
105
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| Neoproterozoic to Mesozoic Sedimentary Rocks |
108
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| Phosphate Mining |
110
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| Sevier Fold-and-Thrust Belt |
111
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| Metamorphic Core Complexes |
113
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| Lake Bonneville |
114
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| GUIDES TO THE BASIN AND RANGE |
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| I-15: Utah Border - Pocatello |
114
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| I-84: I-86 Junction - Utah Border |
122
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| US 26: Idaho Falls - Swan Valley - Wyoming Border |
125
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| US 30: McCammon - Soda Springs - Wyoming Border |
129
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| US 89: Utah Border - Montpelier - Wyoming Border |
135
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| Minnetonka Cave |
136
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| US 91: Utah Border - Preston - I-15 Junction |
138
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| US 93: Arco - Challis |
142
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| ID 28: Mud Lake - Leadore - Salmon |
148
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| ID 31: Swan Valley - Victor |
156
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| ID 34: Preston - Soda Springs - Wyoming Border |
159
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| ID 36: Malad City - Preston - Montpelier |
165
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| ID 37 and ID 38: American Falls - Malad City |
172
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| ID 77: Malta - Declo |
176
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| City of Rocks National Reserve |
178
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| WESTERN MARGIN |
181
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| A Pacific Ocean Crustal Collage |
182
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| Terrane Collision and the Salmon River Suture Zone |
184
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| Miocene Flood Basalts |
188
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| Canyon Cutting, Uplift, and Ice-Age Floods |
192
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| GUIDES TO THE WESTERN MARGIN |
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| US 12: Lewiston - Kooskia |
194
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| US 95: Weiser - New Meadows |
202
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| Hells Canyon Road |
205
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| US 95: New Meadows - Grangeville |
209
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| Salmon River Road from Riggins |
214
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| Hells Canyon at Pittsburg Landing |
222
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| US 95: Grangeville - Lewiston Hill |
227
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| ID 13: Grangeville - Kooskia |
233
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| ID 14: ID 13 Junction - Elk City |
235
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| CENTRAL MOUNTAINS |
244
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| Lemhi Subbasin |
245
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| Rodinia Rifting |
247
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| Antler Orogeny |
248
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| Big Collisions and the Idaho Batholith |
249
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| Eocene Extension and the Challis Magmatic Event |
251
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| Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Time |
254
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| GUIDES TO THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS |
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| US 12: Kooskia - Lolo Pass at Montana Border |
255
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| Coolwater Culmination along Selway Road |
258
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| US 93: Challis - Salmon - Lost Trail Pass at Montana Border |
261
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| ID 21: Boise - Stanley |
265
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| ID 55: Boise - New Meadows |
271
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| Snowbank Mountain |
276
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| ID 75: Timmerman Junction - Ketchum - Stanley |
278
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| Trail Creek Road |
284
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| ID 75: Stanley - Challis |
288
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| NORTHERN IDAHO |
293
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| Ancient Continental Basement Rocks |
293
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| Belt Supergroup of a Long-Lived Continental Basin |
294
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| Sevier Fold-and-Thrust Belt and the Kaniksu and Idaho Batholiths |
299
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| Eocene Magmatism and the Priest River Core Complex |
300
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| Miocene Flood Basalts on the Edge of the Columbia Plateau |
302
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| Purcell Ice Lobe and the Rathdrum Prairie |
302
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| GUIDES TO NORTHERN IDAHO |
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| I-90: Post Falls - Lookout Pass at Montana Border |
305
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| Tubbs Hill |
308
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| US 2 and ID 200: Newport - Sandpoint - Montana Border |
316
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| Priest Lake |
318
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| US 95: Lewiston - Moscow - Coeur d'Alene |
326
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| US 95: Coeur d'Alene - Sandpoint - Canadian Border |
332
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| Farragut State Park |
334
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| Round Mountain and the Priest River Core Complex |
335
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| Flood Megaripples and Spirit Lake |
336
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| ID 3: US 12 Junction - St. Maries - I-90 Junction |
342
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| GLOSSARY |
352
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| REFERENCES |
360
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| INDEX |
367
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