Usage:
Pagoda Limestone (MT*)
Geologic age:
Middle Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: on east side of peak lying N. 20 deg. E. of top of Pagoda Mountain, in SW/4 sec. 3, T. 22 N., R. 13 W., [unsurveyed, Pagoda Mountain 7.5-min quadrangle, Flathead Co., northwestern MT]. Named from Pagoda Mountain, but is not present on the peak that forms very top of that mountain (Deiss, 1933).
Type locality (emended): Prairie Reef area, in NE/4 sec. 9, T. 21 N., R. 11 W., [Prairie Reef 7.5-min quadrangle], Lewis and Clark Co., northwestern MT (Deiss, 1938).
AAPG geologic province:
Montana folded belt*
Sweetgrass arch*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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