Usage:
Drywood Formation of Cherokee Group (KS,MO)
Drywood Formation of Krebs Group (OK)
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: below spillway of the artificial lake on a tributary of Dry Wood Creek, in SE/4 NE/4 sec. 4, T. 32 N., R. 33 W., 1.5 mi west of Liberal, Barton Co., MO (Searight, 1955).
AAPG geologic province:
Chautauqua platform
Cherokee basin
Forest City basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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