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Geologic Unit: Lebo

Usage:

Lebo Member of Fort Union Formation (MT*,ND*,SD*,WY*)
Lebo Shale Member of Fort Union Formation (MT*,ND*,SD*,WY*)
Lebo Formation of Fort Union Group (SD)


Geologic age:

early Tertiary (Paleocene)*


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

Named from exposures in upper Lebo Creek, Wheatland Co., MT (Stone and Calvert, 1910).


AAPG geologic province:

Central Montana uplift*
Powder River basin*
Williston basin*


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 ([ ]).