Usage:
Keechi Creek Shale Member of Mineral Wells Formation of Strawn Group (TX)
Keechi Creek Formation of [†?]Whitt Group (TX)
[†?] Keechi Creek Shale of Strawn Group (TX)
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
"Typically exposed" along Keechi Creek, west of Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto Co., TX. Origin of name not stated by authors, but probably named from Keechi Creek (Plummer and Moore, 1922).
AAPG geologic province:
Bend arch
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