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Geologic Unit: Boulder Pass

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Boulder Pass Formation (MT) considered same as Missoula Group. See Missoula.)


Geologic age:

Precambrian


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name: (See Canadian Lexicon)

Glacier National Park, northern MT, and Waterton Lakes National Park, southwestern Alberta, Canada (CSPG Western Canada Lexicon).


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.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).