- Usage in publication:
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- Blue Creek Canyon group
- Modifications:
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- Areal extent
- Dominant lithology:
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- Limestone
- Dolomite
- AAPG geologic province:
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- South Oklahoma folded belt
Summary:
Pg. 19. Blue Creek Canyon group. Name used to include (ascending) Fort Sill limestone, Royer dolomite, Signal Mountain limestone, and Butterly dolomite [all of Arbuckle group]. Overlies Timbered Hills group. Age is Cambrian. Name credited to E.A. Frederickson (unpub. thesis).
[Origin of name not stated.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 394).
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