Usage:
No current usage.
(†Red Bluff Sandstone (KS,OK) abandoned. Replaced with Whitehorse Sandstone. See Whitehorse.)
Geologic age:
Middle Permian (Guadalupian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures at former post office of Red Bluff [southwest of Coldwater, near town of Protection], Comanche Co., central southern KS (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Anadarko basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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