Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Louis Lake Granodiorite (WY-local) included in Louis Lake batholith (informal) or Louis Lake pluton (informal).)
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Paleoproterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Louis Lake, south Wind River Mountains, Lat. 42 deg. 30 min. to 42 deg. 45 min. N., Long. 108 deg. 45 min. to 109 deg. 00 min. W., Fremont Co., west-central WY (Naylor and others, 1970).
AAPG geologic province:
Wind River basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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