The Sumner Group is a sedimentary

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Lower Permian The Cisuralian is the first series/epoch of the Permian. The Cisuralian was preceded by the Pennsylvanian and followed by the Guadalupian. The Cisuralian Epoch is named after the western slopes of the Ural Mountains in Russia and Kazakhstan and ...

age. It is defined in east-central

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and extends into Oklahoma and

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as well as the

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subsurface where it is undivided.

References

Geologic groups of Kansas Permian System of North America {{Permian-stub

See also

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