- Usage in publication:
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- Dirty Creek sandstone member*
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Sandstone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Chautauqua platform
Summary:
Pg. 503-520. Dirty Creek sandstone member of Atoka formation. Thin to massive bedded sandstone, fine- grained, dark blue; color changes from blue to brown and texture from fine- to medium-grained as sandstone is traced from south to north. Surfaces of bedding planes covered with fucoidal markings. Fossils. Thickness 5 to 20 feet. Separated from underlying Georges Fork sandstone member by 60 feet of varicolored shale and from overlying Webbers Falls sandstone member by 40 feet of shale. Age is Pennsylvanian. Report includes geologic map, columnar sections, measured sections.
Named from exposure west of Dirty Creek, in secs. 11 and 14, T. 12 N., R. 19 E., Muskogee Co., eastern OK.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 612); supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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