Usage:
Battiest Chert Member of Tenmile Creek Formation of Stanley Group (OK)
Battiest siliceous shale bed (informal) (OK)
For informal usage, the rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Late Mississippian (Serpukhovian; Chesterian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures along half-section- and section-line roads near village of Battiest, in secs. 7 and 8, T. 2 S., R. 23 E., McCurtain Co., southeastern OK (Shelburne, 1959, 1960).
AAPG geologic province:
Ouachita folded belt
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 ( ).
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