Usage:
Pentagon Shale (MT*)
Geologic age:
Middle Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: on Continental Divide, in NE/4 sec. 24, T. 25 N., R. 12 W., [Pentagon Mountain 7.5-min quadrangle (1994 ed.), Flathead and Lewis and Clark Co. bdry.], northwestern MT. Named from Pentagon Mountain, which lies approx. 2 mi northwest of type locality, [in NW/4 NW/4 NW/4 sec. 14, T. 25 N., R. 12 W., Pentagon Mountain 7.5-min quadrangle (1994 ed.), Flathead Co., northwestern MT] (Deiss, 1933).
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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