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Geologic Unit: Inola

Usage:

Inola Limestone Member of Boggy Formation of Krebs Group (OK*)
[?] Inola Limestone of Cherokee Group (KS)


Geologic age:

Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian)*


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

Named from an outlier on a hill to the east of the town of Inola, [Rogers Co.], northeastern OK (Lowman, 1932).
[Inola Hill, in sec. 10, T. 19 N., R. 17 E., approx. Lat. 36 deg. 08 min. 43 sec. N., Long. 95 deg. 29 min. 17 sec. W., Inola 7.5-min quadrangle, Rogers Co., OK.]


AAPG geologic province:

Chautauqua platform*


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 ([ ]).