Usage:
Deep Lake Group of Snowy Pass Supergroup (WY*-notably in Medicine Bow Mountains)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in WY*: Campbell Lake Formation, Cascade Quartzite, Lindsey Quartzite, Magnolia Formation, Vagner Formation.
Geologic age:
Paleoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Best exposed around Deep Lake and in the vicinity of Gold Hill, in T. 17 N., R. 79 W., Carbon Co., Medicine Bow Mountains, southeastern WY. Named from Deep Lake (Blackwelder, 1926).
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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