Usage:
Belle City Limestone (OK*)
Misspelled Bell City in some reports.
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Greatest thickness and probably best exposure on south bluff of Canadian River in sec. 15, T. 5 N., R. 6 E. Named from exposures around Belle City, Seminole Co., central OK (Morgan, 1924).
Type locality: village of Belle City, in SW/4 sec. 35, T. 8 N., R. 7 E., Seminole Co., central OK (Tanner, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
Chautauqua platform*
Arkoma 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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