Usage:
No current usage.
(†Big Thompson Schist (CO) considered obsolete.)
Geologic age:
Paleoproterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Big Thompson River, which, in traversing eastern slope of Front Range, has exposed a complete section of the schist, Larimer Co., central northern CO (Fuller, 1924).
AAPG geologic province:
Southern Rocky Mountain region
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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