Usage:
No current usage.
(†Beaver Creek Chalky Member of Niobrara Formation (MT*,WY*) is same as Niobrara Formation. See Niobrara.)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures along Beaver Creek, in T. 46 N., R. 64 W., Weston Co., northeastern WY (Rubey, 1931).
AAPG geologic province:
Powder River basin*
Williston basin*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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