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Geologic Unit: Fourmile

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Fourmile Sandstone Member of †Nelagoney Formation (OK) is same as Cochahee Sandstone Member of Vamoosa Formation [Cochahee Sandstone Lentil of Vamoosa Group]. See Cochahee.)


Geologic age:

Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)


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

Named from exposures on the point south of Fourmile Creek, in SW/4 sec. 30, T. 24 N., R. 10 E., Osage Co., central northern OK (Bowen, 1922 [1918]).


AAPG geologic province:

Chautauqua platform


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

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

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