Usage:
Swan Lake Flat Basalt (WY*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: Sheepeater Cliffs on east side of canyon of Gardner River, southeast of Bunsen Peak, [Mammoth 15-min quadrangle (1962 ed.), Park Co.], Yellowstone National Park, northwestern WY. [Named from Swan Lake Flat, southwest of Bunsen Peak, along western edge of quadrangle] (Christiansen and Blank, 1972).
AAPG geologic province:
Yellowstone province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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