Usage:
Cheshewalla Sandstone of Vamoosa Group (OK*)
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures near point where Cheshewalla Creek empties into Nelagoney Creek, in SE/4 sec. 9, T. 25 N., R. 10 E., [Osage Indian Reservation], Osage Co., central northern OK (Winchester and others, 1922, pl. X).
AAPG geologic province:
Chautauqua platform*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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