Laramie Fm and Fox Hills Sandstone
Sandstone. Late Cretaceous, about 76 to 68 million years old. 5 crags on this site have their map point on it.
The map groups these named formations into this unit: Laramie Formation, Fox Hills Sandstone.
What the map says
The sheet gives no description for this unit. Lithology: sandstone, shale, claystone.
1:500,000 sheet: Horton and others, 2017, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052 (5 crags). A contact line at that scale is about 500 m wide on the ground.
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