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Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Holden Group (MO) reallocated to Altamont Formation and Bandera Shale. See Altamont and Bandera.)
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures at Holden, Johnson Co., northwestern MO (Broadhead, 1873).
AAPG geologic province:
Forest City basin
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