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Geologic Unit: Raggedy Mountain

Usage:

Raggedy Mountain Gabbro (OK)
/Raggedy Mountain Gabbro Group (OK)

[Raggedy Mountain Gabbro Group conflicts with several articles in nomenclature guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). Not used by the USGS.]


Subunits:

(alphabetical) --all in OK: Glen Mountains Layered Complex, Roosevelt Gabbros.


Geologic age:

Cambrian, possibly Early(?) Cambrian*


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

Named from Raggedy Mountains where best exposures occur, in T. 4 N., R. 16 and 17 W., Kiowa Co., OK [Bain, 1900; see also Ham and others, 1964].


AAPG geologic province:

South Oklahoma folded belt
Palo Duro basin
Anadarko basin


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

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

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).