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Geologic Unit: Harrison Summit

Usage:

Harrison Summit Quartzite of Dove Creek Group (ID)


Geologic age:

Cambrian and Ordovician
Late Cretaceous (metamorphic age)


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

Not designated. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from exposures forming the highest part of Mount Harrison, in sec. 4 and 9, T. 13 S., R. 24 E., Mount Harrison 7.5-min quadrangle, Cassia Co., ID (Armstrong, 1968).


AAPG geologic province:

Great Basin province


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

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