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.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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