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Geologic Unit: Roaring Mountain

Usage:

Roaring Mountain Member of Plateau Rhyolite (MT*,WY*)


Geologic age:

Quaternary (Pleistocene)*


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

Type area: series of isolated lava flows north of Yellowstone caldera, around Roaring Mountain [Lat. 44 deg. 46 min. 39 sec. N., Long. 110 deg. 43 min. 35 sec. W., southwestern corner of Mammoth 15-min quadrangle, Park Co.], northwestern Yellowstone National Park, northwestern WY (Christiansen and Blank, 1972).


AAPG geologic province:

Yellowstone province*


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 ([ ]).