Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Silvertip Conglomerate Member of Madison Limestone (MT-local) reallocated to Three Forks Formation. See Three Forks.)
Geologic age:
Late Devonian (Famennian); possibly Early Mississippian (Tournaisian; Kinderhookian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Silvertip syncline, because it is thickest on Lone Butte, [in T. 23 N., R. 13 W., Amphitheatre Mountain 7.5-min quadrangle, 1994 ed., Flathead Co.], which lies nearly in center of syncline. Is known only to occur in 3 areas --Lone Butte, Spotted Bear Mountain, and Pentagon Mountain, [west of Continental Divide in Flathead Co., northwestern MT] (Deiss, 1933).
AAPG geologic province:
Montana folded belt
North Western Overthrust
Sweetgrass arch
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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