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Geologic Unit: Oak Creek

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Oak Creek Beds (WY) replaced with Lakota Formation and Fuson Shale. See Lakota and Fuson.)


Geologic age:

Early Cretaceous


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

Not designated. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from exposures along Oak Creek, in Hay Creek coal field, Crook Co., WY (Jenney, 1899).


AAPG geologic province:

Powder River basin


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

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