Usage:
Mount Pablo Formation (MT*)
Subunits:
Cut Bank Sandstone Member (MT*).
Geologic age:
Early Cretaceous (Aptian to Albian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposure on north side of Badger Creek in the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, in NE/4 SW/4 sec. 3, T. 29 N., R. 11 W., Half Dome Crag quadrangle, Pondera Co., northwestern MT. Named from Mount Pablo in the Sawtooth Range, 14 km south of East Glacier Park, Glacier Co., northwestern MT (Mudge and Rice, 1982).
AAPG geologic province:
Montana folded belt*
North Western Overthrust*
Sweetgrass arch*
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 ([ ]).