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Geologic Unit: Mount Rowe

Usage:

Mount Rowe Member of Miller Peak Formation of Missoula Group of Belt Supergroup (MT)
Mount Rowe Member of Miller Peak Formation (Canada)
Spelled Mt. Rowe in some U.S. reports (Belt Supergroup of U.S. = Purcell Supergroup of Canada).


Geologic age:

Mesoproterozoic


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name: (See Canadian Lexicon)

On south crest of Mt. Rowe [or Mount Rowe], near Akamina Pass, in Waterton Lakes National Park, British Columbia, Canada (Fenton and Fenton, 1937).


AAPG geologic province:

Sweetgrass arch


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

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