Usage:
Meade Formation (CO*?, KS)
Meade Group (KS*,OK)
Meade Gravel (OK)
Subunits:
GROUP STATUS (alphabetical): Ballard Formation (KS*), Crooked Creek Formation (KS*,OK*).
FORMATION STATUS (alphabetical): Grand Island Member (KS), Missler Member (KS).
Geologic age:
Quaternary*
Pleistocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Meade Center, Meade Co., KS (Cragin, 1896).
AAPG geologic province:
Anadarko basin*
Sedgwick 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 ([ ]).