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Geologic Unit: Buck Mountain

Usage:

/Buck Mountain Quartzite (SD*)
/Buck Mountain Formation (SD)

[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Buck Mountain Granite by Bradley (1956) in WY.]


Geologic age:

Paleoproterozoic*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Buck Mountain, in sec. 15, T. 2 N., R. 5 E., Pennington Co., SD (Bayley, 1972).


AAPG geologic province:

Midcontinent region*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).