Usage:
Kiowa Shale (KS*,OK)
Kiowa Formation (KS,OK)
[?] Kiowa Shale Member of [†?]Purgatoire Formation (CO*,NM?,OK*)
Subunits:
FORMATION STATUS (alphabetical): Champion Shell Bed (KS), Longford Member (KS).
Geologic age:
Early Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Kiowa Co., KS (Cragin, 1894).
AAPG geologic province:
Anadarko basin*
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 ([ ]).