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Geologic Unit: Flint Creek
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Flint Creek beds
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Montana folded belt
Publication:

Gwinn, V.E., 1961, Geologic map of the Drummond area, Granite and Powell Counties, Montana: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Geologic Map, no. 4, scale 1:63,360, Also issued as Montana Bur. Mines Geol. Spec. Pub., no. 21


Summary:

Upper beds of Flint Creek removed and called Barnes Creek gravel because they are unconformable on lower part of Flint Creek and because they have Pliocene. [Neither reason valid for revision.] Overlies Cabbage Patch beds; underlies Barnes Creek gravel (new). Ranges from 0-500 ft thick in area, Powell Co, MT, Montana folded belt province. Thinner and more excellent bedding distinguishes Flint Creek from underlying Cabbage Patch beds. Of Tertiary age.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


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