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Geologic Unit: Reclamation

Usage:

Reclamation Formation (ND,SD)
Reclamation Member of Hartville Formation (NE,WY)


Geologic age:

Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian)


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Reclamation Hill, in sec. 27, T. 27 N., R. 66 W., Platte Co., WY. Named from Reclamation Hill (Condra and others, 1940).


AAPG geologic province:

Chadron arch
Denver basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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