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Geologic Unit: Crystal City

Usage:

Crystal City sandstone [informal] (MO)
Called Crystal in some early reports.
(†Crystal City Sandstone abandoned by the USGS. Is same as part of St. Peter Sandstone and Roubidoux Formation. See also St. Peter and Roubidoux.)

Considered informal by the MO Geol. Survey. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.


Geologic age:

Ordovician


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

Named from Crystal City, Jefferson Co., eastern MO (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).


AAPG geologic province:

Ozark uplift


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

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

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