Usage:
/Copper Creek Conglomerate of Libby Creek Group (WY)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Copper Creek Member of Muldoon Formation by Thomasson (1959) in ID.]
Geologic age:
Proterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Accessible outcrops found in T. 14 N., R. 84 W., along Escarpment-Hog Park Road at boundary of secs. 19 and 30, and at confluence of North Fork of Miner and Copper Creeks at boundary of secs. 27 and 28, Carbon Co., WY. Probably named from Copper Creek, in T. 14 N., R. 84 W., Carbon Co., WY (Divis, 1976).
AAPG geologic province:
Northern Rocky Mountain region
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