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Geologic Unit: Siyeh

Usage:

No current usage in the U.S. Name still used in Canada.
(†Siyeh Limestone of Piegan Group of Belt Supergroup (MT) replaced with Helena Dolomite (or Formation). See Helena.)


Geologic age:

Mesoproterozoic


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

Mount Siyeh, at head of Canyon Creek in the Swift Current drainage, Glacier Co., MT (Willis, 1902).


AAPG geologic province:

Northern Rocky Mountain region


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

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