Usage:
Bottle Creek Formation of Snowy Pass Group (WY*-recognized locally in Sierra Madre)
Geologic age:
Paleoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in secs. 22, 23, 26, and 27, T. 14 N., R. 87 W., Carbon Co., WY. Named from Bottle Creek, in Sierra Madre, WY (Houston and others, 1992).
AAPG geologic province:
Northern Rocky Mountain region*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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