Usage:
Sixmile Creek Formation of Bozeman Group (MT*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Miocene
Barstovian
Clarendonian
Hemphillian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Along Sixmile Creek, where well exposed, in secs. 9 through 15, T. 5 N., R. 3 E., Broadwater and Gallatin Cos., MT. Named from Sixmile Creek (Robinson, 1967).
AAPG geologic province:
Montana folded belt*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).