Usage:
Dog Creek Formation of Nippewalla Group (KS)
Dog Creek Shale of Nippewalla Group (CO*?,KS*)
Dog Creek Shale of El Reno Group (OK*)
Dog Creek Shale of Pease River Group (TX*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Acme Dolomite Member (OK*), Aspermont Dolomite Member (OK*), Guthrie Dolomite Bed (OK) or Guthrie Dolomite Member (OK*), Haskew Gypsum Bed (OK) or Haskew Gypsum Member (OK*), Hollis Dolomite Bed (OK), McQueen Gypsum Bed (OK,TX), Southard Dolomite Bed (OK), Wagon Yard Gypsum Member (TX), Watonga Dolomite Bed (OK).
Geologic age:
early Permian (Leonardian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Dog Creek, Barber Co., central southern KS (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Anadarko basin*
Bend arch*
Las Animas arch*
Palo Duro basin*
Sedgwick basin*
South Oklahoma folded belt*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).