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Geologic Unit: Singer Peak

Usage:

Singer Peak Formation of Snowy Pass Group (WY*-Sierra Madre)


Geologic age:

Paleoproterozoic*


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

Type area: lower part exposed in SE/4 sec. 4 and NE/4 sec. 9, T. 14 N., R. 87 W.; upper part exposed in E/2 sec. 8, T. 14 N., R. 87 W., Sierra Madre, Carbon Co., WY. Named from Singer Peak (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 ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).