Usage:
Cedartop Gypsum Member of Blaine Formation of El Reno Group (OK*)
Cedartop Gypsum Member of Blaine Formation of Pease River Group (TX*)
Cedartop Gypsum Bed of Elm Fork Member of Blaine Formation of El Reno Group (OK)
Geologic age:
early Permian (Leonardian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Cedartop Butte, [on North Fork of Red River], Roger Mills Co., southwestern OK (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 896).
Type locality (redesignated): in bluffs about 250 yds north of Cedartop Butte, in SE/4 SE/4 sec. 35, T. 8 N., R. 21 W., Beckham Co., southwestern OK (Scott and Ham, 1957).
AAPG geologic province:
Anadarko basin*
Palo Duro basin*
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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