Usage:
Ratcliffe interval (informal) in Charles Formation of Madison Group (ND-subsurface)
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Middle Mississippian (Visean; late Osagean to Meramecian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name: (See Canadian Lexicon)
Named from Socony Central Le duc Del Rio Ratcliffe No. 1 well, LSD 5-30-1-15, West of 2nd Meridian (W2M), Saskatchewan, Canada (Saskatchewan Geological Society, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
Williston basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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