Usage:
Chaney Gypsum Member of Flower-pot Shale of El Reno Group (OK*)
Chaney Gypsum Bed of Flower-pot Shale of El Reno Group (OK)
Geologic age:
early Permian (Leonardian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Chaney Salt Plain on Elm Fork of Red River, 4 mi east of TX line [in T. 6 N., R. 26 W., Bull Creek 7.5-min quadrangle], Harmon Co., southwestern OK (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200; see Scott and Ham, 1957).
AAPG geologic province:
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.
"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 ([ ]).