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Geologic Unit: Tepee Creek
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Tepee Creek formation
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Zeolite
    • Opal
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • South Oklahoma folded belt
Publication:

Merritt, C.A., and Ham, W.E., 1941, Pre-Cambrian zeolite-opal sediments in Wichita Mountains, Oklahoma: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 25, no. 2, p. 287-299.


Summary:

Pg. 287, 290-299. Tepee Creek formation. Name applied to formation composed principally of zeolites and opal with variable amounts of dolomite and calcite; appears to be stratified. Maximum thickness 47 feet. Rests with erosional unconformity on anorthosite. Intruded by several small granite dikes of Precambrian age. [Age is Permian.]
Occurs as four scattered outcrops in interior part of Wichita Mountains. Named from exposures near junction of Tepee Creek and North Fork of Red River, [Warren 7.5-min quadrangle], Kiowa Co., southwestern OK.

Source: Publication; US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 3857).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Tepee Creek formation†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • South Oklahoma folded belt
Publication:

Chase, G.W., 1954, Permian conglomerate around Wichita Mountains, Oklahoma: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 38, no. 9, p. 2028-2034. [Available online, with subscription, from AAPG archives: http://www.aapg.org/datasystems or http://search.datapages.com]


Summary:

Pg. 2028, 2034. Name Tepee Creek dropped from formal nomenclature. Replaced with Post Oak conglomerate member of Wichita formation.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 3857).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Tepee Creek sediments
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • South Oklahoma folded belt
Publication:

Ham, W.E., Merritt, C.A., and Frederickson, E.A., 1957, Field conference on geology of the Wichita Mountain region [Oklahoma]: Oklahoma Geological Survey Guidebook, May 2-4, 1957, no. 5, 58 p., Sponsored by Panhandle Geol. Soc., Univ. Oklahoma, Oklahoma Geol. Survey


Summary:

Pg. 26-28. Tepee Creek sediments. As now used, term Tepee Creek is applied to zeolite-opal sediments that were deposited as anorthosite conglomerates and sandstones unconformably on basic igneous rocks in central part of Wichita Mountain region. Their age can no longer be accepted as Precambrian. Instead these sediments probably are coarse-clastic shoreward facies of shales in Wichita formation of Early Permian age. Type locality stated.
Type locality: in SW/4 SW/4 sec. 6, T. 4 N., R. 18 W., [Warren 7.5-min quadrangle], Kiowa Co., southwestern OK.

Source: Publication; US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 3857).


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