Usage:
Bayou Manard Member of Moorefield Formation of Mayes Group (OK)
Geologic age:
Middle Mississippian (Visean; Meramecian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: southeast of Muskogee and Fort Gibson, in SE/4 sec. 19, T. 15 N., R. 20 E., southwest of bridge over Bayou Manard, [Fort Gibson Dam 7.5-min quadrangle], Muskogee Co., northeastern OK. Named from exposures along Bayou Manard (Huffman, 1948).
AAPG geologic province:
Arkoma basin
Chautauqua platform
Ozark uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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