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Geologic Unit: Dodds Creek

Usage:

Dodds Creek Sandstone Member of Galesburg Shale of /Bronson subgroup [informal] of Kansas City Group (KS)
[?] Dodds Creek Sandstone Member of Coffeyville Formation of Skiatook Group (OK)

["Subgroup" not recognized as a formal stratigraphic rank term (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). Bronson subgroup considered informal and should not be capitalized.]


Geologic age:

Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian)


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

Named from Dodds Creek, Labette Co., eastern KS (Jewett, 1932).


AAPG geologic province:

Cherokee 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 ( ).

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