Fox Hills Sandstone (SDKfh;0)

Fox Hills Sandstone

Bluish-green to green, white to dark-gray, and yellow to tan, carbonaceous and iron-stained, cross-bedded, very fine- to coarse-grained, glauconitic sandstone and siltstone. Interbedded with gray and green to brown shale and siltyshale. Thickness up to 200 ft (61 m).

State	South Dakota
Name	Fox Hills Sandstone
Geologic age	Upper Cretaceous
Lithologic constituents	Major Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone (Bed, Carbonaceous, Glauconitic)Bluish-green to green, white to dark-gray, and yellow to tan, carbonaceous and iron-stained, cross-bedded, very fine- to coarse-grained, glauconitic sandstone and siltstone. Sedimentary > Clastic > Siltstone (Bed, Carbonaceous, Glauconitic)Bluish-green to green, white to dark-gray, and yellow to tan, carbonaceous and iron-stained, cross-bedded, very fine- to coarse-grained, glauconitic sandstone and siltstone. Minor Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale (Bed)Interbedded with gray and green to brown shale and silty shale.
References	Tomhave, D.W., and Schulz, L.D., 2004, Bedrock Geologic Map Showing Configuration of the Bedrock Surface in South Dakota East of the Missouri River, South Dakota Geological Survey, GM 9, scale 1:500,000.
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Counties	Butte - Campbell - Corson - Dewey - Haakon - Harding - Jackson - Meade - Pennington - Perkins - Walworth - Ziebach

Fox Hills Sandstone

Tomhave, D.W., and Schulz, L.D., 2004, Bedrock Geologic Map Showing Configuration of the Bedrock Surface in South Dakota East of the Missouri River, South Dakota Geological Survey, GM 9, scale 1:500,000.