Usage:
Van Buren Formation (AR*-subsurface)
(†Van Buren Formation (MO), †Van Buren Formation of Arbuckle Group (OK, and KS-subsurface), or †Van Buren Member of Gasconade Dolomite (MO,OK, and KS-subsurface) not used by the MO (type locality in MO), KS, and OK Geol. Surveys. Rocks reallocated to lower part of Gasconade Dolomite. See also Gasconade.)
Subunits:
Gunter Sandstone Member (AR*-subsurface).
Geologic age:
Early Ordovician (Ibexian; Tremadocian; Skullrockian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from town of Van Buren, Carter Co., MO [which is built on Eminence Dolomite]. Well exposed along U.S. Highway 60 west of Van Buren.
AAPG geologic province:
Ozark uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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