Usage:
Pumpkin Creek Member of Big Branch Formation of Dornick Hills Group (OK)
Pumpkin Creek Member of Big Branch Formation of Deese Group (OK)
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from excellent outcrops on Pumpkin Creek, in SE/4 sec. 19, T. 6 S., R. 3 E., Carter Co., central southern OK (Tomlinson, 1929).
AAPG geologic province:
South Oklahoma folded belt
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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