Usage:
Split Rock Creek Formation (SD,MN)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from exposures along cut banks of Split Rock Creek, Minnehaha Co., SD. Principal surface and subsurface sections designated (Ludvigson and others, 1981).
AAPG geologic province:
Sioux uplift
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