Usage:
Lindsey Quartzite of Deep Lake Group of Snowy Pass Supergroup (WY*-Medicine Bow Mountains)
Geologic age:
Paleoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Also type section]: in NW/4 sec. 2 and NE/4 sec. 3, T. 16 N., R. 80 W., Medicine Bow Mountains, Carbon Co., WY. Origin of name not stated by authors, but probably named from exposures west of Lindsey Lake, in sec. 26, T. 17 N., R. 79 W. (Karlstrom and Houston, 1979).
Reference section: 500 m west of Lindsey Lake, in NE/4 sec. 27 and NW/4 sec. 26, T. 17 N., R. 79 W. (Karlstrom and Houston, 1979).
AAPG geologic province:
Northern Rocky Mountain region*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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