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Geologic Unit: Timber Lake

Usage:

Timber Lake Member of Fox Hills Sandstone (SD*)
Timber Lake Member of Fox Hills Formation (ND)


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)


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

Not designated. Named from exposures near town of Timber Lake, Dewey Co., SD (Morgan and Petsch, 1945).
Principal reference section: in sec. 27, T. 15 N., R. 23 E., Dewey Co., SD (Waage, 1968).


AAPG geologic province:

Williston basin


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 ([ ]).