Usage:
Purcell Basalt of Missoula Group of Belt Supergroup (MT*)
Purcell Lava [Member] of Snowslip Formation of Missoula Group of Belt Supergroup (MT*)
Geologic age:
Mesoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name: (See Canadian Lexicon)
Not designated. Named from exposures in the McGillivray, Galton, Clarke and Lewis Ranges of the Purcell Mountain system, British Columbia, Canada (Daly, 1912).
AAPG geologic province:
Northern Rocky Mountain region*
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