Usage:
Flower-pot Shale of Nippewalla Group (KS*)
Flower-pot Shale of El Reno Group (OK*)
Flower-pot Formation of Pease River Group (TX*)
Flower-pot Member of Salt Fork Formation (NE)
Misspelled Flowerpot in some reports.
Subunits:
FORMATION STATUS (alphabetical) --all in OK: Chaney Gypsum Bed or Chaney Gypsum Member*, [?]Chickasha Tongue, Kiser Gypsum Bed or Kiser Gypsum Member*, Marty Dolomite Bed.
Geologic age:
early Permian (Leonardian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Flower-pot Mound, Barber Co., central southern KS (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Anadarko basin*
Palo Duro basin*
Permian basin*
Sedgwick basin*
South Oklahoma folded belt*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).