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Geologic Unit: Rawlins

Usage:

Rawlins Ash Bed of Ogallala Formation (KS)


Geologic age:

late Tertiary (Miocene)


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

Named from exposures at center of west line of SW/4 sec. 4, T. 4 S., R. 34 W., Rawlins Co., northwestern KS (Swineford and others, 1955).


AAPG geologic province:

Las Animas arch


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

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