- Usage in publication:
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- Aetna
- Aetna cycle of precipitation of gypsum
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Sedgwick basin
- Anadarko basin
Cragin, F.W., 1897, Observations on the Cimarron series: American Geologist, v. 19, p. 351-363.
Summary:
Pg. 353. Aetna, from Aetna (Barber County, Kansas) is here proposed as common name for Glass Mountain and Cave Creek formations, expressing the genetic and chemical relationship between them. [In table is called Aetna cycle of precipitation of gypsum.] Present in western Oklahoma and Kansas. Age is Permian.
[GNC remark (ca. 1938, US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 896, p. 16): Includes Blaine formation and upper part of Enid formation.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 16).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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