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A specimen of stibnite. The Stibnite Mining District sits atop the Idaho Batholith, one of the signature features of Idaho’s unique geology.The Idaho Batholith is nearly 14,000 square miles (36,000 km 2) of granite, formed from the collision of the oceanic plate and the North American Plate around 100 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. [10]
Since 1919, the Idaho Geological Survey (formerly Bureau of Mines and Geology) has studied and reported on the general and environmental geology of the state. The Survey also studies and reports on the water (both surface and ground), mineral data, and energy assets of the state.
The Idaho Batholith is a granitic and granodioritic batholith of Cretaceous-Paleogene age that covers approximately 25,000 square kilometres (9,700 sq mi) of central Idaho and adjacent Montana. The batholith has two lobes that are separate from each other geographically and geologically.
The Wayan Formation is a geological formation in Idaho whose strata date back to the latest Early Cretaceous and the earliest Late Cretaceous.Dinosaur, other reptile, mammal, and micro and macro-floral remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.
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Big Southern Butte is the largest and youngest (300,000 years old) of three rhyolitic domes formed over a million years near the center of the Eastern Snake River Plain in the U.S. state of Idaho. [5] It is one of the largest volcanic domes on earth. [4]