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  • Usage in publication:
    • Klondike Lake Conglomerate Member
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Conglomerate
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Northern Rocky Mountain region
Publication:

Karlstrom, K.E., Flurkey, A.J., and Houston, R.S., 1983, Stratigraphy and depositional setting of the Proterozoic Snowy Pass Supergroup, southeastern Wyoming; record of an Early Proterozoic Atlantic-type cratonic margin: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 94, no. 11, p. 1257-1274.


Summary:

Named as a member of the Proterozoic Medicine Peak Quartzite of the Libby Creek Group of the Snowy Pass Supergroup. Lies about 125 m below the top of the Medicine Peak. Consists of hematite quartz-pebble conglomerate 17 m thick. Can be traced for about 9 km. No type locality designated. Medicine Peak occurs in the Medicine Bow Mountains of Carbon and Albany Cos, WY in the Northern Rocky Mountain region. Nomenclature chart. Geologic map.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Klondike Lake Conglomerate Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Northern Rocky Mountain region
Publication:

Houston, R.S., Karlstrom, K.E., Graff, P.J., and Flurkey, A.J., 1992, New stratigraphic subdivisions and redefinition of subdivisions of Late Archean and Early Proterozoic metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks of the Sierra Madre and Medicine Bow Mountains, southern Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1520, 50 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:125,000)


Summary:

Revised in that Klondike Lake Conglomerate Member of Medicine Peak Quartzite in paper in which Snowy Pass Supergroup is formally defined. Name used in the Medicine Bow Mountains, WY in the Northern Rocky Mountain region. Geologic map; not separately mapped from Medicine Peak. Stratigraphic diagram. Age changed from Proterozoic to Early Proterozoic.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


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