Usage:
Government Draw Bentonite Beds of Virgin Creek Member of Pierre Shale (SD*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
In SW/4 sec. 22, T. 5 N., R. 28 E., Stanley Co., SD (Nichols and others, 1987).
AAPG geologic province:
Williston basin*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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