Usage:
Little Bighorn Member of Madison Limestone (MT*?,WY*)
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian (Kinderhookian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Little Tongue River section, in NE/4 sec. 27, T. 57 N., R. 87 W., Sheridan Co., WY. Named from exposures in Little Bighorn Canyon, in NW/4 sec. 30, T. 58 N., R. 89 W., Sheridan Co., WY (Sando, 1982).
AAPG geologic province:
Powder River basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).