Usage:
Game Refuge Formation of Jackfork Group (OK)
Game Refuge Sandstone of Jackfork Group (OK*)
Geologic age:
Pennsylvanian, Early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from State Game Refuge at Jerusalem Hollow in western Kiamichi Range, in secs. 28 and 29, T. 1 S., R. 18 E., about 6 to 7 mi southwest of Clayton, Pushmataha Co., southeastern OK [Referred to as type locality by L.M. Cline and O.B. Shelburne, Jr., 1959, Late Mississippian-Early Pennsylvanian stratigraphy of the Ouachita Mountains, Oklahoma, IN The geology of the Ouachita Mountains; a symposium: Dallas, TX, Dallas Geological Society and Ardmore Geological Society, p. 179 (tbl. 1), 190 (tbl. 2), 192-193]. Best exposures are in Round Prairie syncline, in sec. 2, T. 2 S., R. 12 E., along Campbell Creek, but name Campbell Creek preoccupied (Harlton, 1959).
AAPG geologic province:
Ouachita folded belt*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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