Usage:
Bennington Limestone of Washita Group (OK*)
Geologic age:
late Early Cretaceous (Albian; Comanchean Provincial Epoch)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from town of Bennington, [in T. 6 S., R. 12 E., southeastern corner Atoka 1:125,000-scale quadrangle], Bryan Co., central southern OK (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
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.
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