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Usage:
No current usage.
(†Cedar Point shales and shaly limestones [informal] (KS) is same as Matfield Shale. See Matfield.)
Geologic age:
early Permian (Wolfcampian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Probably named from Cedar Point, Chase Co., central KS (Wooster, 1905).
AAPG geologic province:
Nemaha anticline
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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