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Geologic Unit: Medicine Lodge

Usage:

Medicine Lodge Gypsum Member of Blaine Formation of Nippewalla Group (KS*)
Medicine Lodge Gypsum Member of Blaine Formation of El Reno Group (OK*)
Medicine Lodge Gypsum Member of Blaine Formation of Pease River Group (TX*)


Geologic age:

early Permian (Leonardian)*


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

Named from Medicine Lodge River and town of Medicine Lodge, Barber Co., southern KS (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).


AAPG geologic province:

Anadarko basin*
Chautauqua platform*
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 ([ ]).