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Geologic Unit: Mouat

Usage:

Mouat quartz monzonite [informal] (MT)

Considered informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.


Geologic age:

Late Archean


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Not designated. Mapped just southeast of the Mouat Mine (chromite mine) in northeastern part of Cathedral Peak area, Stillwater Co., MT. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from mine (Butler, 1966).


AAPG geologic province:

Northern Rocky Mountain region


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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