Usage:
Damnation Limestone (MT*)
Geologic age:
Middle Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: west end of Scapegoat basin, in S/2 sec. 6, SW/4 sec. 5 and N/2 sec. 8, T. 18 N., R. 10 W., [Lewis and Clark Co.], northwestern MT (Deiss, 1938).
Named from Damnation Creek on west side of Pagoda Mountain, Flathead Range, northwestern MT (Deiss, 1933).
AAPG geologic province:
Montana folded belt*
Sweetgrass arch*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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