- Usage in publication:
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- Glass Mountain formation
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- Original reference
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Anadarko basin
Cragin, F.W., 1897, Observations on the Cimarron series: American Geologist, v. 19, p. 351-363.
Summary:
Pg. 353, 355. Glass Mountain formation. Includes all beds, 160 feet thick, above Salt Plain measures and below Cave Creek formation, the equivalent Cedar Hills sandstones and Flower-pot shales of Kansas section not being satisfactorily identified in Oklahoma. Included in Salt Fork division (Cimarron group). Age is Permian.
Named from Glass (also spelled Gloss) Mountains, Major Co., northwestern OK.
[†Glass Mountain formation of Cimarron group abandoned ca. 1936. See "Modern classifications of the Permian rocks of Kansas and Nebraska," compiled by M.G. Wilmarth, Secretary of Committee on Geologic Names, USGS unpub. corr. chart, Oct. 1936, 1 sheet.]
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