Usage:
No current usage.
(†Rocktown Channel Sandstone Member of Dakota Sandstone (KS) considered abandoned.)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from excellent exposures at and near large group of "hoodoos," or houselike blocks of sandstone, in NW/4 sec. 4, T. 13 S., R. 11 W., locally known as Rocktown, Russell Co., KS (Rubey and Bass, 1925).
AAPG geologic province:
Central Kansas uplift
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