Usage:
Scenic Member of Brule Formation of White River Group (SD)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Oligocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Standard section designated 2.2 mi south of Scenic, in SW/4 sec. 23, T. 3 S., R. 13 E., Pennington Co., SD (Bump, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
Williston basin
Sioux uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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