Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Columbus Sandstone (KS) reallocated to Warner and Bluejacket Sandstone Members of Krebs Formation of Cherokee Group. See Warner and Bluejacket.)
Geologic age:
Pennsylvanian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from outcrops along Brush Creek, east of Columbus, Cherokee Co., southeastern KS (Haworth and Kirk, 1894).
AAPG geologic province:
Cherokee basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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