Usage:
Aladdin sandstone (informal) (SD-recognized locally in Black Hills area)
Also called SKOLITHOS sandstone (informal).
(†Aladdin Sandstone (SD,WY) not used by the USGS. Rocks reallocated to Deadwood Formation. See also Deadwood.)
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: on southern flank of Sheep Mountain, in sec. 14, T. 52 N., R. 63 W., Bear Lodge Mountains, Crook Co., eastern WY. Named from nearby town of Aladdin, eastern WY (McCoy, 1952; see also McCoy, 1958).
AAPG geologic province:
Powder River basin
Williston basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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