Big Southern Butte

Near the summit of Big Southern Butte, central Idaho's most widely used prehistoric source of glass.

Idaho Obsidian Sources

SOURCE NAME: Most commonly-used source name for the geochemical source
OTHER NAMES: Alternate names or names of source outcrops belonging to same geochemical source group
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SOURCE NAME (CHEMICAL GROUP) OTHER NAME(S)
American Falls Snake River
Walcott
Badlands --
Bear Gulch Big Table Mountain
Camas-Dry Creek
Centennial
Centennial Mountains
F.M.Y. 90 Group
Spring Creek
Warm Creek Spring
West Camas Creek
Big Southern Butte Webb Spring
Big Springs Fire Tower Big Springs
Bign Springs Fire Tower
Black Canyon --
Browns Bench Brown's Bench
Hudson Ridge
Jackpot
Mahogany Butte
Rock Creek
See Nevada sources.
Camas Prairie Ignimbrite --
Cannonball Mountain 1 Camas Prairie 2
Cannonball Mountain 2 --
Cedar Creek --
Centennial Mountains Mud Lake Ignimbrite
Chesterfield Smith Creek
Coal Bank Spring --
Conant Creek Buggy Springs
Deep Creek --
Dry Creek --
Fish Creek Lower Fish Creek Road
Partridge Creek
South Partridge Creek
Upper Fish Creek Road
Gibson Creek Graham Spring
Moody Swamp
Packsaddle Creek
Gray's Creek --
Jackass Pass-Hominy Peak --
Jasper Flats 1 --
Jasper Flats 2 --
Jordan Creek --
Kelly Canyon Kelly
Kelley Canyon
Kelley's Canyon
Lightning Creek Jordan Creek
Malad Dairy Creek
Garden Creek Gap
Hawkins
Oneida
Wright Creek
Medicine Lodge Canyon --
Murphy Hot Springs Murphy Hot Spring
Murphy Springs
Oreana South --
Owyhee (Idaho and Oregon) Brown's Castle
Grassy Mountain A (Oregon locale)
Oreana
Owyhee
Toy Pass
Ozone --
Partridge Creek --
Picabo Hills --
Pine Mountain --
Reas Pass Argument Ridge
Bear Gulch B
Bear Gulch 2
Lost Spring
Pack Saddle
Point Lookout
Yale Creek
Reynolds --
Rock Creek --
Sinker Canyon --
South Partridge Creek Lower Fish Creek Road
Stevens Camp --
Striker Basin Gulch --
Three Creek Landfill Three Creek 1
Timber Butte Squaw Butte
Webb Creek
Upper Fish Creek Road --
Wedge Butte Snowflake

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Last Updated: 03/23/2009