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Usage:
No current usage.
(†Banzet Formation of Cherokee Group (KS,OK) considered abandoned.)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in KS,OK: Bevier Member, Lagonda Member, Mulky Member.
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: 11,000 sq mi between T. 26 S. (KS) and T. 22 N. (OK), and between R. 2 E. and R. 23 E. [Named from ghost town of Banzet, Craig Co., northeastern OK] (Denesen, 1985).
[Reference section]: west of Welch, in roadcut (trenched 1982) along OK Highway 10, in SW/4 SW/4 sec. 30, T. 28 N., R. 20 E., Craig Co., northeastern OK (Brenner, 1989).
AAPG geologic province:
Cherokee basin
Chautauqua platform
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 ([ ]).