Usage:
No current usage.
(†Sully Member of Pierre Shale (SD) replaced with Crow Creek Member, DeGrey Member, and Verendrye Member. See Crow Creek, DeGrey, and Verendrye.)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along both sides of Missouri River in and opposite Sully Co., SD (Searight, 1937).
AAPG geologic province:
Sioux uplift
Williston basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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