The Eagle Sandstone, originally the Eagle Formation, is a geological formation in Montana whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. It is a light to brownish gray to pale yellow-orange, fine-grained sandstone. It contains areas of crossbedding and local shale members. It contains large (up to 15 feet in diameter) sandy calcareous concretions. Its thickness varies from 100 to 350 feet due to the lens nature of the individual sandstone layers and local interbedded sandy shale layers.

Dinosaur fossils have been recovered from the formation.

Eagle Sandstone

Weathering and erosion of the formation has created natural arches, hoodoos and other picturesque features of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument.

Eagle Sandstone

Vertebrate paleofauna

"Ornithomimus" grandis - Pes.

Eagle Sandstone

See also

List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Montana

Paleontology in Montana

References

Bibliography

Shale formations of the United States

Cretaceous Montana

Campanian Stage