Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Kintla Argillite (MT*) reallocated to Mount Shields, Miller Peak, and Striped Peak Formations of the Missoula Group of the Belt Supergroup. See Mount Shields, Miller Peak, and Striped Peak.)
Geologic age:
Mesoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name: (See Canadian Lexicon)
Named from occurrence in mountains on 49th Parallel northeast of Upper Kintla Lake, Flathead Co., Glacier National Park, northwestern MT (Willis, 1902).
Type locality: Willis gives it as pyramidal peaks on 49th parallel, at head of Kintla drainage [Glacier National Park, Montana]. Fenton and Fenton give pyramidal peaks of Akamina Ridge, west of Waterton Lakes National Park [British Columbia, Canada]. Well exposed on Mount Rowe, Mount Carthew, Mount Custer, and on Boulder Peak (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Northern Rocky Mountain region*
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