Usage:
Flaxville Gravel (MT*,ND*)
Flaxville Formation (MT*,ND*,Canada)
Confined to areas along the U.S.-Canada border.
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Miocene and Pliocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from town of Flaxville on the Scobey branch of the Great Northern Railway, [Sheridan Co.], northeastern MT (Collier and Thom, 1918).
AAPG geologic province:
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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