Usage:
Confederate Limestone of Hoxbar Group (OK)
Confederate Limestone Member of Hoxbar Formation (OK)
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named because it is well exposed a short distance west of Oklahoma Confederate Veterans Home, in SE/4 sec. 36, T. 4 S., R. 1 E., on southwest outskirts of Ardmore, Carter Co., south-central OK (Tomlinson, 1929).
AAPG geologic province:
South Oklahoma folded belt
Anadarko basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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