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Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Camp Creek series*
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Northern Rocky Mountain region
Publication:

Walcott, C.D., 1906, Algonkian formations of northwestern Montana: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 17, p. 1-28.


Summary:

Pg. 2-7, 9, 18. Camp Creek series [Camp Creek group]. Present in Mission Range, central western Montana. Thickness 11,700 feet. Younger than Blackfoot series (new) and older than Cambrian Flathead sandstone. Age is pre-Cambrian (Belt series). Report includes correlation chart.
Named from exposures on Camp Creek, Mission Range, Lake and Missoula Cos., central western MT.
[Misprint (USGS Bull. 896, p. 326): entry under Camp Creek belongs under Camp Springs.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 326); supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Camp Creek series†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
Publication:

McGill, G.E., and Sommers, D.A., 1967, Stratigraphy and correlation of the Precambrian Belt Supergroup of the southern Lewis and Clark Range, Montana: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 78, no. 3, p. 343-352.


Summary:

Pg. 348. †Camp Creek series of Walcott abandoned. =Missoula Group. Although Camp Creek has priority, it has been little used.

Source: Publication.


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 ( ).

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