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Geologic Unit: Blue Cut

Usage:

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


Geologic age:

Early Cretaceous (Comanchean Provincial Epoch)


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

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).


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 ([ ]).