Usage:
Bridger Peak Quartzite of Phantom Lake Metamorphic Suite (WY*)
Bridger Peak Quartzite of Libby Creek Group (WY)
Geologic age:
Late Archean*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: exposures in cirques in area of Bridger Peak, in T. 14 N., R. 86 W., Sierra Madre Range, Carbon Co., Medicine Bow National Forest, south-central WY (Divis, 1976; 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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