Usage:
Bow Quartzite of Phantom Lake Metamorphic Suite (WY*)
Geologic age:
Late Archean*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: exposures in extreme northern part of Medicine Bow Mountains, in T. 19 N., R. 79 W., Carbon Co., WY. Named from Bow Ranger Station (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.
"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 ([ ]).