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  • Usage in publication:
    • Allen limestone*
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cherokee basin
Publication:

Adams, G.I., 1904, Geology of the Iola quadrangle, IN Adams, G.I., Haworth, Erasmus, and Crane, W.R., Economic geology of the Iola quadrangle, Kansas: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 238, p. 14-29, (incl. geologic maps, scale 1:125,000 and approx. 1:316,800)


Summary:

Pg. 20. Allen limestone. Limestone, 10 to 25 feet thick. Underlies Vilas shale and overlying Concreto [Lane] shale. Age is Pennsylvanian.
[Named from Allen, Lyon Co., southeastern KS.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 34).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Allen limestone member†
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cherokee basin
Publication:

Wilmarth, M.G., 1936, [Selected Geologic Names Committee remarks (ca. 1935-1938) on Carboniferous and Permian rocks of the Midcontinent], IN Wilmarth, M.G., 1938, Lexicon of geologic names of the United States (including Alaska): U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 896, pts. 1-2, 2396 p.


Summary:

†Allen limestone member is same as Plattsburg limestone member of Lansing formation according to H. Hinds and F.C. Greene (1915) and N.D. Newell (1935). Discarded by the USGS in 1912. Discarded by R.C. Moore, 1936 (Kansas Geol. Survey Bull., no. 22).
[See "Modern classifications of the Pennsylvanian rocks of eastern Kansas and southeastern Nebraska," compiled by M.G. Wilmarth, Secretary of Committee on Geologic Names, USGS unpub. corr. chart, Oct. 1936, 2 sheets.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 34).


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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