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Geologic Unit: Maudlow

Usage:

Maudlow Formation of Livingston Group (MT*)


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous (Santonian to Campanian)*


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

Type section: certain measured sections in secs. 10, 15, 16, 22, and 28, T. 4 N., R. 5 E., Gallatin Co., MT. Named from town of Maudlow, Gallatin Co., MT (Skipp and McGrew, 1977).


AAPG geologic province:

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 ([ ]).