Usage:
Baxter Springs Member of Boone Formation (KS*,OK*)
Geologic age:
Late Mississippian (Meramecian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: west bluff of Spring River, [in NE/4 sec. 16, T. 29 N., R. 25 E., Peoria 7.5-min quadrangle], Ottawa Co., OK, about 1,000 ft south of KS-OK State line and 2 mi south of Baxter Springs, Cherokee Co., KS (McKnight and Fischer, 1970).
AAPG geologic province:
Chautauqua platform*
Cherokee basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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