Usage:
Fitzhugh Member of Clarita Formation of /Chimneyhill subgroup [informal] of Hunton Group (OK)
["Subgroup" not recognized as a formal stratigraphic rank term (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). Chimneyhill subgroup considered informal and should not be capitalized.]
Geologic age:
early Silurian (Wenlock)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
long bed of Chimneyhill Creek, in SE/4 sec. 5, T. 2 N., R. 6 E., Pontotoc Co., OK. Named from town of Fitzhugh in southern Pontotoc Co., OK. Strata do not crop out in the town but are well exposed in Lawrence uplift a few mi toward the east (Amsden, 1967).
AAPG geologic province:
Arkoma basin
South Oklahoma folded belt
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