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Geologic Unit: Moccasin Bend

Usage:

Moccasin Bend Member of Boone Formation (KS*,MO[*?],OK*)
(†Moccasin Bend Member of Boone Formation not used by the MO Geol. Survey.)


Geologic age:

Mississippian, Late*
Meramecian*


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

On Spring River, 6 mi east of Miami, Ottawa Co., OK (McKnight and Fischer, 1970).


AAPG geologic province:

Chautauqua platform*
Cherokee 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 ([ ]).