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Geologic Unit: Black Hill

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Black Hill Shale (unranked) in †Fullington Shale (unranked) in Kiowa Formation (KS) considered abandoned.)


Geologic age:

Early Cretaceous


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

Named from a locality a few mi southwest of Sun City, locally known as Black Hill, Comanche Co., central southern KS (Cragin, 1885).


AAPG geologic province:

Anadarko basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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