Usage:
Bandera Quarry Sandstone Member of Bandera Shale of Marmaton Group (KS)
Bandera Quarry Sandstone Bed of Bandera Shale Member of Oologah Formation of Marmaton Group (OK)
Bandera Quarry Sandstone Member of Bandera Shale of /Appanoose subgroup [informal] of Marmaton Group (MO)
["Subgroup" not recognized as a formal stratigraphic rank term (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). Appanoose subgroup considered informal and should not be capitalized.]
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Nearly all local occurrence is in flagstone quarries in vicinity of center of north line of SW/4 sec. 29, T. 25 S., R. 23 E., Bourbon Co., southeastern KS (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Cherokee basin*
Forest City basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).