Usage:
Hunton Group (AR*,KS*,KY,MO*,OK*,TX)
Hunton Formation (KS*)
Hunton Limestone (KS*,OK)
Hunton Supergroup (IL,KY)
/Hunton megagroup [informal] (IL,KY)
["Megagroup" not recognized as a formal stratigraphic rank term (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). Considered informal and should not be capitalized.]
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician to Devonian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures near former townsite of Hunton (T. 1 S., R. 8 E.), southwestern part of Coal Co., southeastern OK (Taff, 1902).
Well exposed within Arbuckle complex and known to have wide distribution in subsurface.
AAPG geologic province:
Arkoma basin*
Ouachita folded belt*
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 ([ ]).