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  • Usage in publication:
    • Guertie sand*
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Gravel
    • Sand
    • Silt
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Arkoma basin
    • Chautauqua platform
Publication:

Taff, J.A., 1899, Geology of the McAlester-Lehigh coal field, Indian Territory, accompanied by a report on the fossil plants by David White, and a report on the Paleozoic invertebrate fossils by G.H. Girty, IN Walcott, C.D., Nineteenth annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1897-1898; Part III, Economic geology: U.S. Geological Survey Annual Report, 19, pt. 3, p. 429-600.


Summary:

Pg. 439. Guertie sand. Gravel, sand, and silt, 30 or more feet thick, resembling recent river or lake sand plains, probably deposited in a deserted river channel, and extending over part of McAlester coal field. [Mapped (pl. 64) as Peasable sand (probably from Peaceable Creek, Hughes County, Oklahoma), but Guertie adopted in text as more appropriate name. Assigned to Quaternary(?) (Pleistocene?).]
[Named from Guertie, Hughes Co., OK. Spelling of name of this town was in December 1924 changed by U.S. Geographic Board to Gerty.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 815).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Guertie sand
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Arkoma basin
    • Chautauqua platform
Publication:

Gould, C.N., 1925, Index to the stratigraphy of Oklahoma, with lists of characteristic fossils by C.E. Decker: Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 35, 115 p.


Summary:

Pg. 109. Guertie sand. Sand and gravel with alternating strata of clay and silt. Thickness 0 to 50 feet. Age is probably Pleistocene.
Recognized on both sides of Canadian River in McClain, Garvin, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole, Hughes, Coal, and Pittsburg Cos., central and central southern OK.

Source: Publication; US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 815).


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