Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Greer Formation (OK,TX) reallocated to Blaine, Dog Creek, Whitehorse, and Cloud Chief formations. See Blaine, Dog Creek, Whitehorse, Cloud Chief.)
Geologic age:
early to middle Permian (Leonardian to Guadalupian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Greer Co., southwestern OK. Type locality is said by Gould to be the butte known as Cedar Top, in northwestern corner of Kiowa Co., southwestern OK (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Anadarko basin
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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