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Geologic Unit: Gene Autry

Usage:

Gene Autry Shale Member of Golf Course Formation of Dornick Hills Group (OK)
Gene Autry Member of Golf Course Formation of Dornick Hills Group (OK*)


Geologic age:

Early Pennsylvanian (Morrowan)*


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

Type section: north and west of center of NW/4 sec. 34, T. 3 S., R. 4 E., Carter Co., south-central OK. Exposed in a series of ravines on both sides of Santa Fe RR track, about 2 mi north of town of Gene Autry (formerly Berwyn), in southern Arbuckle Mountains (Elias, 1956).


AAPG geologic province:

South Oklahoma folded belt*


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

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

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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).