Three Forks-Logan
Type Sections - Three Forks represents the end of the
Missouri River. It is here that the Gallatin, Madison, and Jefferson Rivers
converge to make up the Missouri River. At Logan, on the Gallatin River,
Peale, in 1898, identified and named the Devonian Three Forks Formation
and the Mississippian Madison Formation (now group). Scientists from the
Section of Invertebrate Paleontology have been making collections from
this outcrop for more than a century. (Lewis and Clark, 7/25/1805, Clark,
7/13/1806)
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