- Usage in publication:
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- Blue Cut shales
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Shale
- Limestone
- Sandstone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Anadarko basin
Cragin, F.W., 1895, A study of the Belvidere beds: American Geologist, v. 16, p. 357-385.
Summary:
Pg. 361, 380. Blue Cut shales. Alternating blue-black and gray argillaceous shales, with minor beds of sandy shale, ferruginous sandstone, and shell limestone. The zone of typical and abundant mollusk GRYPHAEA ROEMERI. Forms top bed of Fullington shales. Overlies Black Hill shale (lower bed of Fullington shales) and underlies Tucumcari shales. Age is Early Cretaceous (Comanche).
[Named from "the Blue cut," a deep railway cut a few miles south-southwest of Belvidere in southeast Kiowa Co., central southern KS.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 218).
- Usage in publication:
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- Blue Cut Shale
- Modifications:
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- Not used
Summary:
Appendix B, Catalog of Mesozoic nomenclature for Kansas. Blue Cut Shale of Cragin (1895). Cragin proposed name for part of the Kiowa, but now not used.
Source: Publication.
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