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Geologic Unit: Big Basin

Usage:

Big Basin Formation (KS*)
Big Basin Member of Cloud Chief Formation (OK*)


Geologic age:

Middle Permian (Guadalupian)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Named from Big Basin, a depression in Clark Co., central southern KS (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).


AAPG geologic province:

Anadarko basin*


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 ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).