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Geologic Unit: Lake Murray

Usage:

Lake Murray Formation of Dornick Hills Group (OK*)


Subunits:

(alphabetical) --all in OK: Bostwick Conglomerate Member* or Bostwick Member, Frensley Member, Griffin Member*, Lester Member.


Geologic age:

Middle Pennsylvanian*


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

Named from exposures south of south shore of Lake Murray, Murray Co., southern OK (Harlton, 1956).


AAPG geologic province:

South Oklahoma folded belt*


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 ([ ]).