Usage:
Buckner Formation (AL,AR*,FL,LA*,TX*)
Buckner Formation of Louark Group (AR)
Buckner Member of Haynesville Formation (AL*,AR,MS*)
Buckner Anhydrite Member of Haynesville Formation (AL,FL,MS)
Recognized in subsurface only.
Geologic age:
Jurassic, Late*
Oxfordian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Buckner field, Columbia Co., AR (Shearer, 1938).
AAPG geologic province:
Gulf Coast basin*
Arkla basin*
East Texas basin*
Mid-Gulf Coast 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 ([ ]).