GEOLEX

Summary of Citation: Pagoda

Publication:
Deiss, C.F., 1933, Paleozoic formations of northwestern Montana:
   Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Memoir, no. 6, 51 p.

Usage in Publication:
Pagoda oolite, formation

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Named	Montana folded belt province	Limestone Oolite Shale

Summary:
Named for Pagoda Mountain, southern Flathead Co, MT, Montana folded belt province. Type locality is on eastern side of peak, N 20 degrees E of top of Pagoda Mountain, in SW1/4 sec 3, T22N, R13W. Unit occurs in area of Lewis and Clark, Flathead, and Swan Ranges, in southeastern Flathead, northern Powell, and northwestern Lewis and Clark Cos. Thickness varies from 400 ft in Dearborn River area to 87 ft in Wall Creek area. Is 168 ft thick at type locality, where it consists of a lower 75 ft of thin-bedded, cream-gray, platy, oolitic limestone which weathers white-gray; a middle 30-ft zone of thin- to medium-bedded, fine-grained chocolate-colored limestone with minor flaky, buff clay throughout; and an upper 56 ft of cream- to chocolate-gray, thick-bedded, massive oolitic limestone. Limestones of Pagoda vary greatly in area, ranging from light-gray to tan and chocolate-colored, and varying from black, fissile shales to red and green limestone-conglomerate in Pentagon Mountain area. Conformably overlies Steamboat limestone (new); conformably underlies Pentagon shale (new). Eight measured sections. Correlation chart. Middle Cambrian age, based on stratigraphic position. [Author uses rank terms oolite and formation interchangeably.]

Summary of Citation: Pagoda

Publication:
Deiss, C.F., 1938, Cambrian formations and sections in part of
   Cordilleran Trough: Geological Society of America Bulletin,
   v. 49, no. 7, p. 1067-1168

Usage in Publication:
Pagoda limestone

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Redescribed Revised Overview	Montana folded belt province	Limestone Oolite Shale

Summary:
Redescribed from Pagoda oolite to Pagoda limestone in Lewis and Clark Range area in Flathead, Powell, and Lewis and Clark Cos, MT in Montana folded belt province. Type locality changed to Prairie Reef area in NE1/4 sec 9, T21N, R11W, northwestern Lewis and Clark Co, MT. Unit is primary limestone, commonly oolitic, with minor shale. Pagoda overlies Dearborn limestone as rocks formerly assigned to Steamboat limestone are included in Dearborn. Pagoda underlies Pentagon shale. Tentatively correlates with lower part of Bloomington limestone in Blacksmith Fork area, UT, Swasey limestone in House Range, UT, and in part with upper part of Highland Peak limestone, Highland Range, NV. Measured sections. Correlation chart. Cross section. Middle Cambrian (Albertan) age.

Summary of Citation: Pagoda

Publication:
Deiss, C.F., 1939, Cambrian stratigraphy and trilobites of
   northwestern Montana: Geological Society of America Special
   Paper, 18, 135 p.

Usage in Publication:
Pagoda limestone

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Overview	Montana folded belt province

Summary:
Description of BOLASPIS-EHMANIA-GLYPHASPIS trilobite fauna in lower fourth of unit in Lewis and Clark Range area, northwestern MT, Montana folded belt province. Correlation charts. Measured sections. Middle Cambrian age.

Summary of Citation: Pagoda

Publication:
Deiss, C.F., 1943, Stratigraphy and structure of southwest Saypo
   quadrangle, Montana: Geological Society of America Bulletin,
   v. 54, no. 2, p. 205-262

Usage in Publication:
Pagoda limestone*

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Revised Areal limits	Sweetgrass arch

Summary:
Tentatively extends unit into area of Arsenic Peak in Sawtooth Range, southwestern Teton Co, MT, Sweetgrass arch. Only upper part of Pagoda is exposed. Possibility exists these rocks may belong to Pentagon shale, though lithology is different than Pentagon occurring to west in Silvertip quad. Here, Pagoda underlies Steamboat limestone rather than Pentagon shale. Underlying rocks not exposed. Stratigraphic chart. Middle Cambrian age.

Summary of Citation: Pagoda

Publication:
Mudge, M.R., 1972, Pre-Quaternary rocks in the Sun River Canyon
   area, northwestern Montana, IN Geology of the Sun River
   Canyon, area, northwestern Montana: U.S. Geological Survey
   Professional Paper, 663-A, p. A1-A142, (incl. geologic map,
   scale 1:48,000)

Usage in Publication:
Pagoda Limestone*

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Overview	Montana folded belt province Sweetgrass arch

Summary:
Divided into shale (lower) and limestone (upper) members. Both members well exposed at Nineteen Mountain, Prairie Reef and Slategoat Mountain in western part of map area, Lewis and Clark Co, MT, Montana folded belt province. Thickness ranges from 250-360 ft in Pretty Prairie quad (GQ-454, Mudge, 1966); averages about 350 ft thick in Glenn Creek quad (GQ-499, Mudge, 1966). Upper limestone member exposed on west side of north end of Big George Gulch in Arsenic Peak quad (GQ-597, Mudge, 1967) in Teton Co, MT, Sweetgrass arch. Here thickness is 275 ft. Conformably overlies Dearborn Limestone with distinct contact; conformably underlies Steamboat Limestone. Correlates in part with Wolsey Shale and Meagher Limestone in south-central MT. Geologic map, stratigraphic chart. Middle Cambrian age.

Summary of Citation: Pagoda

Publication:
GNU Staff, 1989, GNU Staff remark by T.W. Judkins.  Stratigraphic
   chart for Cambrian formations of western Montana (adapted
   from Tysdal, 1976, USGS Bull. 1405-I).: U.S. Geological
   Survey, unpublished geologic names committee note

Usage in Publication:
Pagoda Limestone

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Figure	Montana folded belt province

Summary:
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