Usage:
Bostwick Member of Lake Murray Formation of Dornick Hills Group (OK)
Bostwick Conglomerate Member of Lake Murray Formation of Dornick Hills Group (OK*-recognized locally in southern Arbuckle Mountains)
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Moscovian; Wesphalian A; Atokan)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: on Bostwick Dairy Farm, in W/2 NE/4 sec. 11, T. 5 S., R. 1, E., whose buildings stand upon the ridge, Carter Co., south-central OK. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from Bostwick Ridge or Bostwick Dairy Farm in Carter Co., south-central OK (Tomlinson, 1929).
AAPG geologic province:
South Oklahoma 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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