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Geologic Unit: Livingstone

Usage:

Livingstone Formation of Rundle Group (MT)


Geologic age:

Carboniferous


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name: (See Canadian Lexicon)

Not designated. Described from the Mount Head area, "on ridges north of Flat Creek and Highwood River." Named from Livingstone Range of the Rockies, Alberta, Canada (Douglas, 1953; CSPG Western Canada Lexicon).


AAPG geologic province:

Alberta trough


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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