Usage:
Daly Creek Member of Sepulcher Formation of Washburn Group of Absaroka Volcanic Supergroup (MT*,WY*)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: headwaters of Daly Creek in the northwest corner of Yellowstone National Park, northwestern WY (Smedes and Prostka, 1972).
AAPG geologic province:
Montana folded belt*
Yellowstone province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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