Usage:
Miner Creek Formation of Livingston Group (MT*)
Subunits:
Sulphur Flat Sandstone Member (MT*).
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along Miner Creek, in E/2 sec. 19 and NW/4 sec. 20, T. 2 S., R. 9 E., Park Co., MT. Named from Miner Creek, Park Co., MT (Roberts, 1963).
AAPG geologic province:
Central Montana uplift*
Montana folded belt*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).