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Geologic Unit: Fortune

Usage:

Fortune Formation (MO)


Geologic age:

Middle Devonian


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: in NE/4 SW/4 SW/4 sec. 4, T. 23 N., R. 26 W., Barry Co., southwestern MO. Named from Fortune Branch. Formation restricted in its outcrops to eastern one-fourth of Cassville quadrangle and western one-fourth of Shell Knob quadrangle, an area of approx. 100 sq mi (Grohskopf and others, 1943).


AAPG geologic province:

Ozark uplift


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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