Usage:
Arbuckle Group (OK*, and subsurface of CO*,KS*)
Arbuckle Limestone (OK*)
Subunits:
GROUP STATUS (alphabetical): Butterfly Dolomite (OK*), Chapman Ranch Formation (OK), Cool Creek Formation (OK*), Cotter Dolomite (KS*,OK*?), Eminence Dolomite (CO*,KS*,OK*), Fort Sill Limestone (OK*), Gasconade Dolomite (KS*,OK*), Jefferson City Dolomite (KS*,OK*), Kindblade Formation (OK*), McKenzie Hill Formation (OK*) or McKenzie Hill Limestone (OK*), Roubidoux Formation (KS*,OK*), Royer Dolomite (OK*), Signal Mountain Formation (OK*), Strange Formation (OK), West Spring Creek Formation (OK*).
Geologic age:
Late Cambrian to Middle Ordovician*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Arbuckle Mountains, of which it composes major part of central mass, [Murray Co., OK] (Taff, 1902).
AAPG geologic province:
Anadarko basin*
Las Animas arch*
Las Vegas-Raton basin*
South Oklahoma folded belt*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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