Usage:
No current usage.
(†Eureka beds [informal] (KS) considered invalid.)
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Probably named from Eureka, Greenwood Co., eastern KS (Wooster, 1905).
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.
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