Usage:
Whitewood Limestone (MT*,SD*,WY*)
Whitewood Dolomite (MT*,SD*,WY*, and ND-subsurface)
Geologic age:
Ordovician, Late*
Richmondian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in sec. 13, T. 5 N., R. 3 E., Lawrence Co., western SD (McCoy, 1958).
Named from typical exposures in Whitewood Canyon on Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley RR (Deadwood Branch), below Deadwood, [in T. 5 N., R. 3 E., Sturgis 15-min quadrangle, Lawrence Co.], western SD. Name credited to T.A. Jaggar, Jr. Crops out in northern Black Hills and vicinity, SD and WY (Darton, 1904; see also Jaggar, 1904).
AAPG geologic province:
Bighorn basin*
Williston basin*
Powder River 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 ([ ]).