Usage:
No current usage.
(†Musco Group (MO-recognized locally in St. Francois Mountains area) considered abandoned.)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in MO: Buford Granite Porphyry, Carver Creek Granite Porphyry, Munger Granite Porphyry, Slabtown Granite, Stono Granite.
Geologic age:
Precambrian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from exposures in area of Musco Creek, a southeasterly-flowing tributary of the St. Francis River, from Knob Lick to a point northwest of Frederickstown, Madison Co., MO (Tolman and Robertson, 1969).
AAPG geologic province:
Midcontinent region
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 ( ).
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