Usage:
Mount Wallace Formation of Sunlight Group of Absaroka Volcanic Supergroup (MT*,WY*)
Subunits:
Slough Creek Tuff Member (MT*,WY*).
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: Mount Wallace, MT (Smedes and Prostka, 1972, p. C13).
AAPG geologic province:
Montana folded belt*
Yellowstone province*
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 ([ ]).