Usage:
Salt Plain Siltstone of Nippewalla Group (KS)
Salt Plain Formation of Nippewalla Group (KS*)
Salt Plain Formation of Hennessey Group (OK*)
Subunits:
Crisfield Sandstone Bed (KS) or Crisfield Sandstone Member (KS*,OK*).
Geologic age:
early Permian (Artinskian; Leonardian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Great Salt Plain of Cimarron River, Harper and Barber Cos., south-central KS (Cragin, 1896).
AAPG geologic province:
Anadarko basin*
Sedgwick 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 ([ ]).