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Geologic Unit: Parkview
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Parkview metaolivine gabbro
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Gabbro
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Northern Rocky Mountain region
Publication:

Houston, R.S., 1968, A regional study of rocks of Precambrian age in that part of Medicine Bow Mountains lying in southeastern Wyoming, with a chapter on the relationship between Precambrian and Laramide structure: Geological Survey of Wyoming Memoir, no. 1, 167 p.


Summary:

Name applied as an informal descriptive term to a north-trending bar-bell shaped body in T12N, R80W, Carbon Co, WY, Northern Rocky Mountain region. Neither source of geographic name nor location of type locality stated. This body is metamorphosed. Pod-like inclusions of quartzo-feldspathic gneiss found in gabbro near its contact with gneiss. Is one of several mafic intrusions 10 ft to 1/2 mi wide that extend along strike for a mile or more. These intrusions are common south of the Mullen Creek-Nash Fork shear zone. Precambrian age. Geologic map.

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


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