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Geologic Unit: Navajoe Mountain

Usage:

/Navajoe Mountain Basalt-Spilite Group (OK)

[A group name combines a geographic name with the term "group," and no lithic designation is included (ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021).]


Geologic age:

Early(?) Cambrian


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

Not designated. Best exposed in quarry at south end of Navajoe Mountain, in NE/4 SW/4 sec. 1, T. 2 N., R. 19 W., Jackson Co., OK (Ham and others, 1964).
Type section (subsurface): Stanolind 1 Perdasofpy, in SE/4 NW/4 SW/4 sec. 11, T. 4 N., R. 12 W., Comanche Co., OK (Ham and others, 1964).


AAPG geologic province:

South Oklahoma folded belt
Palo Duro basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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