Bartlesville sand. Name that has been applied to one and to several productive sands in lower part of Cherokee shale of eastern part of Osage County, northeastern Oklahoma, some of which have been correlated with Bluejacket sandstone member of Cherokee shale (Pennsylvanian). The name has been used to include Red Fork sand at top and Glenn sand at base, with intervening beds, the whole aggregating 200 or more feet in thickness; and it has also been applied to the lower sand only, the upper sand being called Burbank (Red Fork) sand. According to N.W. Bass, the lower sand, which lies 50 to 100 feet below the higher sand, is now regarded as true Bartlesville, which is the producing sand near town of Bartlesville, Washington County, Oklahoma, and is separated from Mississippi lime by a small thickness of shale. The sand formerly called Bartlesville sand in Kansas is now designated Burbank sand.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 120).