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Gordon Formation

Geologic Formation in MT

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Lithology

Dolostone

Limestone

Shale

Other (1,157 mi²)

Geologic Age

Middle Cambrian – Furongian (521 Ma – 487.3 Ma ago)

Geologic Unit Label

CAdf

Devils Glen Formation: Light gray dolomite with subordinate algal limestone and shale. Shallow marine. Thickness as much as 200 m (656ft). Switchback Formation: Green and gray, locally calcareous, fissile shale or mudstone, interbedded with thin beds of gray, flaggy limestone or dolomite. Shallow marine. Thickness as much as 95 m (312 ft). Steamboat Formation: Tan, thick-bedded, hard limestone with thin layers of green fissile shale and nodular shaly limestone. Shallow marine. Thickness as much as much as 90 m (295 ft). Pentagon Formation: Black fissile shale and brownish gray, platy limestone beds. Laterally replaced by Pagoda Formation. Shallow marine. Thickness as much as 88 m (289 ft). Pagoda Formation: Green shale interbedded with maroon calcareous mudstone and gray limestone, and lower fissile black shale and thin limestone-pebble conglomerate. Shallow marine. Thickness as much as 120 m (394 ft). Dearborn Formation: Upper brownish gray to gray limestone and lower interbedded green shale, shale-pebble conglomerate, and calcareous sandstone. Shallow marine shelf. Thickness as much as 115 m (377 ft). Damnation Formation: Brownish gray or bluish gray fossiliferous, locally oolitic limestone and subordinate dark gray shale. Shallow marine. Thickness as much as 70 m (230 ft). Elko Formation: Light brownish gray dolomite and subordinate mudstone. Thickness as much as 220 m (722 ft). Gordon Formation: Upper part of formation: dark green to dark brown, fissile shale with thin beds of sandstone and gray, glauconitic limestone. Lower part of formation: ferruginous sandstone, sandy shale, and grayish green shale. Shallow marine. Thickness as much as 90 m (295 ft). Flathead Formation (CAf): Pinkish gray to light gray sandstone or quartzite. Locally very glauconitic, pebbly, arkosic, or iron-stained. Marine shoreface. Thickness as much as 100 m (328 ft).

— USGS

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