Usage:
Bugtown Formation (SD*)
Geologic age:
Precambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures on Bugtown Gulch, [in secs. 12, 13, T. 3 S., R. 3 E.], Berne quadrangle, Custer Co., southwestern SD (Redden, 1963).
AAPG geologic province:
Powder River 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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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).