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Geologic Unit: Talihina

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Talihina Chert (OK) replaced with Arkansas Novaculite, Missouri Mountain Shale, Polk Creek Shale, and Bigfork Chert. See Arkansas, Missouri Mountain, Polk Creek, and Bigfork.)


Geologic age:

Ordovician
Silurian
Devonian


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Not designated. Named from town of Talihina in Le Flore Co., OK (Taff, 1902).


AAPG geologic province:

Ouachita folded belt
Arkoma 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 ([ ]).