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Geologic Unit: Cresswell

Usage:

Cresswell Member of Winfield Limestone of Chase Group (KS*,NE*)
[?] Cresswell Member of Winfield Formation (IA)
Cresswell Limestone of Chase Group (KS)


Geologic age:

early Permian (Wolfcampian)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type locality: on east side of golf course, in NE/4 sec. 18, T. 34 S., R. 4 E., north side of east edge of Arkansas City. Named from Cresswell Twp., Cowley Co., eastern KS (Condra and Upp, 1931).


AAPG geologic province:

Nemaha anticline*
Sedgwick basin*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).