Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †/Elm Creek Limestone (OK) reallocated to McCurtain Shale Member of McAlester Formation of Krebs Group. See McCurtain.)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Elm Creek Limestone by Drake (1893) in TX.]
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from occurrences along Elm Creek, south of road, in NW/4 SE/4 sec. 10, T. 29 N., R. 22 E., Ottawa Co., OK (Weidman, 1932).
AAPG geologic province:
Chautauqua platform
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