Usage:
Elmont Limestone Member of Emporia Limestone of Wabaunsee Group (KS*,OK*)
Elmont Limestone Member of Emporia Formation of Wabaunsee Group (IA,MO*,NE)
Elmont Limestone Member of Emporia Limestone of Vanoss Group (OK)
Elmont Limestone Member of Emporia Limestone of /Nemaha subgroup [informal] of Wabaunsee Group (KS)
Elmont Limestone Member of Emporia Formation of /Nemaha subgroup [informal] of Wabaunsee Group (MO)
["Subgroup" not recognized as a formal stratigraphic rank term (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). Nemaha subgroup considered informal and should not be capitalized.]
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
First described from occurrence on hills near Elmont, Shawnee Co., eastern KS (Beede, 1898). [Condra refers to this as type locality.]
AAPG geologic province:
Forest City 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 ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).