Usage:
Red Lion Formation (MT*)
Geologic age:
Late Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Red Lion Mine at head of North Fork of Flint Creek, Philipsburg region, [Granite Co.], central western MT. The spur north of this mine is a hogback of the formation and affords good exposures of middle part (Emmons and Calkins, 1913).
AAPG geologic province:
Montana folded belt*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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