Usage:
Teckla Sandstone Member of Lewis Shale (WY*)
Teckla Sand Member of Lewis Shale (WY)
Subunits:
Kara Bentonite Bed (WY).
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Campanian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 5,158 to 6,014 ft, Gulf Oil Company No. 1 Government Teckla well, in SE/4 SE/4 sec. 10, T. 41 N., R. 70 W., Campbell Co., WY. Named from Teckla Post Office in southwest Campbell Co., WY (Runge and others, 1973).
AAPG geologic province:
Powder River 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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