Named as lower member (of 2) of the Meade formation [not acceptable, according to the Code, to use the same unit name for both a member of a formation and the designated formation]. Retains the name and type locality given by Cragin (1896) for the Meade gravels in vicinity of old Vanhem PO. Type "exposures" are in Clark Co, KS, Anadarko basin, in sec 12, T30S, R23W, and secs 7 and 18, T30S, R22W. One of best outcrops is in Meade Co, about 50 mi to the southwest, in sec 9, T33S, R29W. At type locality of the Meade formation in SW1/4 sec 6, T32S, R28W, beginning on south side of U.S. Hwy 160, and extending along east bank of the tributary, in sec 7, T32W, R28W, Meade Co, KS, a measured section of the Meade member: consists of sand and gravel, dark, coarse at base, manganese stained, upper five ft fine to coarse sand, cross-bedded, partly cemented, containing some reworked Rexroad clay. Is 12 ft thick at this locality. Unconformably overlies Rexroad formation; underlies Missler member (new) of Meade formation. Stratigraphic chart. Of Pleistocene age.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).