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Geologic Unit: Hell Roaring

Usage:

Hell Roaring Member of Altyn Formation of Belt Supergroup (MT-recognized locally on east side of Glacier National Park area, Glacier Co.)
(†Hell Roaring Member abandoned by the Canada Geol. Survey. Is same as Altyn Formation and Waterton Formation. See Altyn and Waterton.)


Geologic age:

Mesoproterozoic


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name: (See Canadian Lexicon)

Hell Roaring Falls in Waterton Lakes National Park, Lat. 49 deg. 03 min. N., Long. 113 deg. 57 min. W., Alberta, Canada (Fenton and Fenton, 1937; CSPG Western Canada Lexicon).


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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