Usage:
No current usage.
(†Corral Sandstone (KS) is a local facies of Cheyenne Sandstone. See Cheyenne.)
Geologic age:
Early Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named for the Natural corral, a short box canyon on Lanphier claim, in southeast corner of Kiowa Co., central southern KS, long known under that name by the settlers (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Anadarko 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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