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Geologic Unit: Sulphur Flats

Usage:

Sulphur Flats Sandstone Member of Miner Creek Formation of Livingston Group (MT*)


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous (Campanian)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: along Miner Creek, near Sulphur Flats, in SE/4 sec. 19, T. 2 S., R. 9 E., Park Co., MT. Named from Sulphur Flats, Park Co., MT (Roberts, 1963).


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 ([ ]).