- Usage in publication:
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- Guertie sand*
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Gravel
- Sand
- Silt
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Arkoma basin
- Chautauqua platform
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).
- Usage in publication:
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- Guertie sand
- Modifications:
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- Areal extent
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Arkoma basin
- Chautauqua platform
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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