No current usage.
(†Elk Creek beds (informal) in Cheyenne Sandstone (KS-local) abandoned.)
Early Cretaceous
Named from Elk Creek, Kiowa Co., central southern KS (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
Anadarko basin
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