Usage:
No current usage.
(†Maurice Formation (MT) or †Maurice Member of Boysen Formation (MT) is synonym for Pilgrim Formation. See Pilgrim.)
Geologic age:
Late Cambrian (Dresbachian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: on south side of valley of North Fork of Grove Creek, 5 mi south of Red Lodge, Carbon Co., southern MT. Named from Mount Maurice, prominent elevation on Beartooth front, [in center E/2 sec. 28, T. 8 S., R. 20 E., Mount Maurice 7.5-min quadrangle, Carbon Co., southern MT] (Dorf and Lochman, 1940).
AAPG geologic province:
Bighorn basin
Central Montana uplift
Montana folded belt
Wind River basin
Yellowstone province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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