Usage:
Poe Evaporite Member of Nesson Formation (MT*,ND*)
Poe Member of Piper Formation (ND)
Subunits:
Dunham Salt Bed (ND).
Geologic age:
Jurassic, Middle*
Bajocian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 6,947 to 7,065 ft, Phillips-Skelly-Gulf No.1 Hoehn (Poe Unit) well, in center NE/4 SE/4 sec. 13, T. 152 N., R. 102 W., McKenzie Co., ND (Nordquist, 1955).
AAPG geologic province:
Williston 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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