No current usage.
(†Blue Cut Shale (unranked) in †Fullington Shale (unranked) in Kiowa Formation (KS) considered abandoned.)
Early Cretaceous (Comanchean Provincial Epoch)
Named from "the Blue cut," a deep railway cut a few miles south-southwest of Belvidere in southeast Kiowa Co., central southern KS (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
Anadarko basin
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