new insights into the Precambrian geology of the Tobacco Root Mountains. We have
clarified the tectonic setting and origin of two suites of metamorphic rocks:(1) a
quartzofeldspathic gneiss complex with associated metasupracrustal rocks (the combined
Indian Creek and Pony–Middle Mountain Metamorphic Suites) that originated in a
continental arc setting between 3.35 and 3.2 Ga with subsequent sedimentation and (2) …