Usage:
Souris Valley beds (Canada-subsurface)
Same as Bottineau interval (informal) in Lodgepole Formation of Madison Group (ND). See also Bottineau.
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian (Kinderhookian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name: (See Canadian Lexicon)
Named from Souris Valley Oil Company, Gordon White No. 1 well, Manitoba, Canada (Saskatchewan Geological Society, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
Williston basin
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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