Usage:
White Owl Creek Member of Fox Hills Formation (SD)
Subunits:
Enning facies (SD).
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: from NW/4 SW/4 NE/4 sec. 18, T. 7 N., R. 13 E., to SW/4 SW/4 NE/4 sec. 7, T. 7 N., R. 13 E., Meade Co., SD (Pettyjohn, 1967).
AAPG geologic province:
Williston basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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