Usage:
No current usage.
(†Beulah Shale or †Beulah Clay (SD,WY) replaced with Morrison Formation. See Morrison.)
Geologic age:
Late Jurassic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures 3 or 4 mi north of Beulah, in Red Water Valley [Crook Co., Black Hills area, northeastern WY] (Jenney, 1899).
AAPG geologic province:
Chadron arch
Powder River basin
Williston basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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