Usage:
Jack Creek Quartzite of Phantom Lake Metamorphic Suite (WY*)
Subunits:
Deep Gulch Conglomerate Member (WY*).
Geologic age:
Late Archean*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in sec. 7, T. 15 N., R. 87 W., Carbon Co., WY. Named from Jack Creek, in northern Sierra Madre (Houston and others, 1992).
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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