Usage:
Nelson Ranch Member of Tullock Formation (MT)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Paleocene, early
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: between secs. 24 and 25, T. 23 N., R. 43 E., and northwest 600 m to the southwest corner sec. 24, Bug Creek quadrangle, McCone Co., MT (Rigby and Rigby, 1990).
AAPG geologic province:
Williston basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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