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Geologic Unit: Singleshot

Usage:

Singleshot Member of Appekunny Formation of Ravalli Group of Belt Supergroup (MT-local)
Recognized in Glacier National Park and adjacent areas, Glacier Co.


Geologic age:

Mesoproterozoic


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

Not designated. Origin of name not stated by authors, but probably named from Singleshot Mountain, near St. Mary Lake, in eastern Glacier National Park, MT (Fenton and Fenton, 1931).
Type locality: at Singleshot Mountain, near St. Mary Lake, in eastern Glacier National Park, MT (Fenton and Fenton, 1937).


AAPG geologic province:

Northern Rocky Mountain region


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