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Skull Creek Shale
Stratigraphic range: Albian
around 101–97 Ma
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Primaryshale
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RegionNebraska
CountryUnited States

The Skull Creek Shale is a Cretaceous geologic formation in Wyoming as well as Colorado and Nebraska, United States.[1]

The Skull Creek Shale corresponds with the Kiowa Shale.[1]

  1. ^ a b R.J. Weimer (1984). J.S. Schlee (ed.). "Relation of unconformities, tectonics, and sea-level changes, Cretaceous of Western Interior, United States" (PDF). AAPG Memoir (Memoir 36, Interregional unconformities and hydrocarbon accumulation). American Association of Petroleum Geologists: 405–414. Retrieved April 15, 2022.

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