Usage:
Whetstone Creek Member of Bonneterre Formation (MO*)
Whetstone Creek Member of Bonneterre Dolomite (AR,OK)
Geologic age:
early Late Cambrian (early Croixan; early Millardan; Steptoean)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 1,435.0 to 1,495.0 ft, St. Joe Minerals Corp. No. 64W133 (WR-1) core, in SE/4 SE/4 sec. 16, T. 29 N., R. 13 W., Wright Co., MO, in the Ozark uplift (outcrop exposures inadequate for a type). Named from Whetstone Creek, near where type [core] was drilled (Kurtz and others, 1975; emended by Thompson and others, 2013).
Reference section (surface; =type Sullivan) [the Whetstone Creek is no longer exposed here, see Thompson and others, 2013]: Crooked Creek cryptoexplosive structure, in center E/2 NW/4 sec. 17, T. 36 N., R. 4 W., Crawford Co., MO (Kurtz and others, 1975).
AAPG geologic province:
Ozark uplift*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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