Snowy Range Formation

{{short description|Geologic formation in Montana}}

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| name = Snowy Range Formation

| image = USNM 35218 Hyolithes gallatinensis (30485423892).jpg

| caption = Fossils from the Snowy Range Formation

| type = Formation

| age = Cambrian

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| region = Montana

| country = United States

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The Snowy Range Formation is a geologic formation in Montana. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cambrian period. It contains characteristic flat pebble conglomerate which sometimes show distinctive red rims Myrow, P.M., Tice, L., Archuleta, B., et al., Flat-Pebble Conglomerate: Its Multiple Origin and Relationship to Metre-Scale Depositional Cycles, Sedimentology, 2004, vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 973–996.

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