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Geologic Unit: Fort Sill

Usage:

Fort Sill Limestone of Arbuckle Group (OK*)


Geologic age:

Late Cambrian*


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

Named for exposures in a small quarry on Fort Sill Military Reservation on east side of the highway between Fort Sill and Lawton, in SE/4 sec. 8 [projected], T. 2 N., R. 11 W., [Comanche Co., southern OK]; only 40 ft of formation exposed. A complete section of formation is found about 6 mi west of Fort Sill and 1 mi south of Signal Mountain, in sec. 7, T. 2 N., R. 12 W., [Comanche Co., southern OK] (Ulrich, 1932).
Type section: on McKenzie Hill, in secs. 7 and 8, T. 2 N., R. 12 W., Comanche Co., southern OK (Ulrich, 1932; Decker, 1939).


AAPG geologic province:

South Oklahoma folded belt*


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

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