Usage:
Gerty Sand (OK*)
Spelled Guertie until 1924, when spelling of town changed to Gerty.
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from town of Guertie [Gerty], Hughes Co., OK (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
[Spelling of name of this town was in December 1924 changed by U.S. Geographic Board to Gerty.]
AAPG geologic province:
Arkoma basin*
Chautauqua platform*
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 ([ ]).