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Usage:
Silver Lake Metavolcanics of Phantom Lake Metamorphic Suite (WY*)
Geologic age:
Late Archean*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
In cliffs between South Spring Creek Lake and Silver Lake, in secs. 10, 11, 12, and 13, T. 14 N., R. 86 W., Carbon Co., WY. Named from Silver Lake (Houston and others, 1992).
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.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
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