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Fox Hills Sandstone

Bluish-green to green, white to dark-gray, yellow to tan, carbonaceous and iron-stained, cross-bedded, very fine- to coarse-grained, glaconitic sandstone and siltstone. Interbedded with gray and green to brown shale and silty shale. Thickness 25-400 ft (8-122 m).
StateSouth Dakota
NameFox Hills Sandstone
Geologic agePhanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late
Original map labelKfh
Primary rock typesandstone
Secondary rock typesiltstone
Other rock typesshale
Lithologic constituents
Major
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale (Bed)
Sedimentary > Clastic > Siltstone (Bed)
Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone (Bed)
Map references
Martin, J. E., Sawyer, J. F., Fahrenbach, M. D., Tomhave, D. W., and Schulz, L. D., 2004, Geologic Map of South Dakota: South Dakota Geological Survey
Unit references
Martin, J. E., Sawyer, J. F., Fahrenbach, M. D., Tomhave, D. W., and Schulz, L. D., 2004, Geologic Map of South Dakota: South Dakota Geological Survey
Geographic coverageButte - Campbell - Corson - Dewey - Haakon - Harding - Jackson - Meade - Pennington - Perkins - Ziebach

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