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Geologic Unit: Creta

Usage:

Creta Dolomite Bed of Elm Fork Member of Blaine Formation of El Reno Group (OK)


Geologic age:

early Permian (Leonardian)


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

Named from station of Creta, in western part of Jackson Co., southwestern OK (Suffel, 1930).


AAPG geologic province:

Anadarko basin
Palo Duro basin
South Oklahoma folded belt


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

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