No current usage.
(†Cave Creek Formation (KS,OK) considered abandoned. Is same as Blaine Formation. See Blaine.)
early Permian (Leonardian)
Named from Cave Creek, Comanche Co., central southern KS (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
Anadarko basin
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