Usage:
Sugarloaf Quartzite of Libby Creek Group of Snowy Pass Supergroup (WY*-Medicine Bow Mountains)
Geologic age:
Paleoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Is exposed on northeast side of Sugarloaf Peak, on inlet to Brooklyn Lake, in T. 16 N., R. 79 W., Albany Co., WY. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from Sugarloaf Peak (Blackwelder, 1926).
AAPG geologic province:
Northern Rocky Mountain region*
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