Akins shale member of Winslow formation. Chiefly blue and black clay shale, with thin sandstones. Thickness 176 feet. Top member of Winslow formation. Age is Pennsylvanian.
[Named from Akins, Sequoyah Co., central eastern OK.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 20).
Pg. 503. Akins shale member. The Atoka, Hartshorne, McAlester, and Savanna formations and a part of Boggy shale are directly traceable into Winslow formation as heretofore mapped in Muskogee County, central eastern Oklahoma. [Wilson identified the subdivisions enumerated above and did not use Winslow formation.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 20).
Pg. 1347. Akins shale member. †Winslow formation is now abandoned. Wilson has recognized in it Atoka, Hartshorne, McAlester, Savanna, and Boggy formations.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 20).
Akins shale member. It is still undetermined to which of formations into which †Winslow formation is now divided the Akins shale member belongs. (H.D. Miser, pers. commun., Feb. 1937.)
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 20).
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