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Geologic Unit: Phillips
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Phillips Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Northern Rocky Mountain region
Publication:

Harrison, J.E., 1972, Precambrian Belt basin of northwestern United States; its geometry, sedimentation and copper occurrences: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 83, no. 5, p. 1215-1240.


Summary:

Used in the Whitefish Range in the Northern Rocky Mountain region as a formation in the Missoula Group of Precambrian Belt Supergroup. Stratigraphic position and correlation with other formations of the Belt of the U.S. in the Northern Rocky Mountain region, and of the Purcell Supergroup of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada shown on figures 4 and 6.

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


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