Usage:
Red Eagle Limestone of Council Grove Group (KS*,NE*,OK*)
Red Eagle Limestone of Vanoss Group (OK)
Red Eagle Formation (NE)
Red Eagle Limestone Member of Konawa Formation of Pontotoc Group (OK)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in KS*,NE*: Bennett Shale Member, Glenrock Member, Howe Member.
Geologic age:
latest Pennsylvanian (latest Virgilian) to earliest Permian (earliest Wolfcampian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in quarry adjacent to the town of Burbank, in SE/4 sec. 25, T. 26 N., R. 5 E., Burbank 7.5-min quadrangle, Osage Co., northern OK (Keairns and Boardman, 2001).
Named from excellent exposures near Red Eagle School [along Salt Creek], southwest of Foraker, Foraker 15-min quadrangle [1916 ed.], Osage Co., northern OK. Section measured on tributary of [Salt] Creek, 0.25 mi east of corner of secs. 1, 2, 11, and 12, T. 26 N., R. 5 E., in southwesternmost corner of quadrangle (Heald, 1916).
[Red Eagle School (no longer exists) along western edge sec. 26, T. 27 N., R. 6 E., Shidler 7.5-min quadrangle, Osage Co., northern OK.]
AAPG geologic province:
Chautauqua platform*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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