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  • Usage in publication:
    • Arickaree shales
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Las Animas arch
Publication:

Cragin, F.W., 1896, On the stratigraphy of the Platte series, or Upper Cretaceous of the Plains: Colorado College Studies, v. 6, p. 49-52.


Summary:

Pg. 52. Arickaree shales. Light colored, olive, yellowish, and brownish fossiliferous gray shales referred to lower part of Fox Hills division. Overlie Lisbon shales. Age is Late Cretaceous.
Named from Arikaree River in Cheyenne Co., northwestern KS.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 69).


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  • Usage in publication:
    • Arickaree shale†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Las Animas arch
Publication:

Wilmarth, M.G., 1938, [Selected Geologic Names Committee remarks], 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:

†Arickaree shale abandoned. Conflicts with better established name (Arikaree) for a Miocene formation. These beds belong to Pierre shale. No beds of Fox Hills age are known in Kansas.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 69).


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

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