Usage:
Garnet Range Formation of Missoula Group of Belt Supergroup (MT*)
Garnet Range Quartzite of Missoula Group of Belt Supergroup (MT*)
Geologic age:
Mesoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: on north side Blackfoot Canyon from Johnson Gulch, 2 mi east of Bonner, eastward to 1 mi from mouth of West Twin Creek, [Missoula Co., western MT]. Blackfoot Canyon forms northwest bdry of Garnet Range, the west part of which is composed largely of rocks of Garnet Range formation (Clapp and Deiss, 1931).
Reference section: Camp Creek section, along crest of the ridge parallel to and northwest of Camp Creek, in secs. 22, 28, and 33, T. 20 N., R. 12 W., Lewis and Clark Range, Powell Co., MT (McGill and Sommers, 1967).
AAPG geologic province:
Northern Rocky Mountain region*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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