Usage:
Elk Butte Member of Pierre Shale (NE*,ND*,SD*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: roadcuts along Federal Highway 12, between 1.5 and 5 mi west of Wakpala, eastern Corson Co., SD. Named from Elk Butte in eastern Corson Co., SD (Searight, 1937; Crandell, 1950).
AAPG geologic province:
Sioux uplift*
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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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).