Medicine Bow Mountains, Wyoming
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Huronian glaciation and Paleoproterozoic Earth history, Snowy Pass Supergroup, Wyoming.
Reconaissance trip, led by graduate student Alex Cox.
Paleoprotoerozoic (~2.4 Ga) trough cross-bedding in the Lindsey Quartzite, Medicine Bow Mountains, WY.
Massive diamictite of the Paleoproterozoic (~2.4 Ga) Vagner Formation, Medicine Bow Mountains, WY.
Symmetrical wave ripples atop a thin paraconglomerate bed in the Paleoproterozoic (~2.4 Ga) Rock Knoll Formation on Rock Creek Knoll, Medicine Bow Mountains, WY.
Medicine Bow Peak, composed of Paleoproterozoic (~2.35 Ga) Medicine Peak Quartzite, rises above Lake Mary in the northern Medicine Bow Mountains, WY.
A dark outcrop of “graphitic phyllite” (lightly metamorphosed black shale) in the Paleoproterozoic (~2.05 Ga) Nash Fork formation, Medicine Bow Mountains, WY.
Large stromatolitic bioherms in the Paleoproterozoic (~2.05 Ga) metadolomite of the Nash Fork formation, “valley of the stromatolites”, Medicine Bow Mountains, WY. Ruler is folded at 1m for scale.
A singularly massive stromatolitic bioherm in the Paleoproterozoic (~2.05 Ga) metadolomite of the Nash Fork formation, “valley of the stromatolites”, Medicine Bow Mountains, WY. Ruler is 2m for scale.