Tokio Formation | |
Type: | Formation |
Age: | Cretaceous |
Namedfor: | Tokio, Hempstead County, Arkansas |
Namedby: | Hugh Dinsmore Miser and Albert Homer Purdue[1] |
Region: | Arkansas, Oklahoma |
Country: | United States |
Unitof: | none |
Subunits: | none |
Underlies: | Brownstown Marl |
Overlies: | Woodbine Formation |
Thickness: | up to 300 feet[2] |
The Tokio Formation is a Late Cretaceous geologic formation in Arkansas and Oklahoma.[2] Named in 1919 by Hugh Dinsmore Miser and Albert Homer Purdue in their study of Arkansas.[1] They assigned the town of Tokio, Hempstead County, Arkansas as the type locality, but did not designate a stratotype for this unit.