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Geologic Unit: Coad Mountain

Usage:

Coad Mountain Augen Gneiss (WY)


Geologic age:

Precambrian


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Not designated. Origin of name not stated, but probably named from Coad Mountain, in T. 18 and 19 N., R. 82 W., Carbon Co., WY (Houston and others, 1968).


AAPG geologic province:

Northern Rocky Mountain region


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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