Usage:
Clifty Limestone (AR*)
Geologic age:
Middle Devonian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from East Fork of Little Clifty Creek, Eureka Springs quadrangle, northwestern AR, where, within an area not exceeding 0.5 sq mi, all its known exposures occur (Miser, 1916).
AAPG geologic province:
Ozark uplift*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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