Usage:
No current usage.
(†Stringtown Shale (AR,OK,TX) abandoned. Replaced with Womble Shale. See Womble.)
Geologic age:
Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Stringtown, Atoka Co., southeastern OK (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Arkoma basin
Ouachita folded belt
South Oklahoma folded belt
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 ( ).
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