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Geologic Unit: Auxvasse Creek

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Auxvasse Creek Sandstone Member of Callaway Limestone (MO) is same as Hoing sandstone (informal, unranked) in Cedar Valley Limestone. See Hoing.)


Geologic age:

Middle Devonian


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Notable exposures in Auxvasse Creek quadrangle [Fulton 15-min quadrangle], Callaway Co., east-central MO. Named from Auxvasse Creek in Callaway Co. (Conselman [1935]; see also MO Geol. Survey lexicon, Thompson, 2001).


AAPG geologic province:

Ozark uplift


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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