Usage:
Mount Owen Quartz Monzonite (WY*)
Geologic age:
Precambrian*
Archean, Late*
Proterozoic, Early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures along trail in South Fork of Cascade Canyon at 8,880 ft elevation, 1.9 mi due west of summit of Mount Owen, Teton Co., WY (Reed and Zartman, 1973).
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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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).