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Geologic Unit: Eureka

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Eureka beds [informal] (KS) considered invalid.)


Geologic age:

Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)


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

Probably named from Eureka, Greenwood Co., eastern KS (Wooster, 1905).


AAPG geologic province:

Cherokee basin


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

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