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Geologic Unit: Winslow

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Winslow Formation (AR,OK) replaced with Atoka Formation, Hartshorne Formation, McAlester Formation, Savanna Formation, and Boggy Formation. See Atoka, Hartshorne, McAlester, Savanna, and Boggy.)


Geologic age:

Pennsylvanian


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

Named from exposures at and around Winslow, [Washington Co.], northwestern AR (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).


AAPG geologic province:

Arkoma basin
Chautauqua platform


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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