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Geologic Unit: Kennedy

Usage:

Kennedy Formation (MT*)


Geologic age:

Pleistocene, middle*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type locality: a gravel mesa, 5,800 feet high, 5 mi east of Chief Mountain, north of Kennedy Creek and 900 ft above it, in northwestern part of Teton Co., northwestern MT (Willis, 1902).


AAPG geologic province:

Sweetgrass arch*
Montana folded belt*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).