Gravel

Variable deposits that range from pebble to boulder size and include sand, silt, and clay. Dominantly alluvial terrace, abandoned channel and floodplain, remnant alluvial fan, and local glacial outwash.
State Montana
Name Gravel
Geologic age Quaternary
Lithologic constituents
Major
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Gravel (Alluvial, Glacial-outwash)
Minor
Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Silt (Alluvial, Glacial-outwash)
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Sand (Alluvial, Glacial-outwash)
Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Clay (Alluvial, Glacial-outwash)
References

Vuke, S.M., Porter, K.W., Lonn, J.D., and Lopez, D.A., 2007, Geologic Map of Montana - Compact Disc: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology: Geologic Map 62-C, 73 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:500,000. This map was digitized in 2012 as a result of a contract between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology.

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