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  • Usage in publication:
    • Brown County bed
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Marl
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Salina basin
Publication:

Elias, M.K., 1942, Tertiary prairie grasses and other herbs from the High Plains: Geological Society of America Special Paper, 41, 176 p., See also GSA Bull., v. 51, no. 12, pt. 2, p. 1969, 1940 [abs.], and Amer. Jour. Botany, v. 28, no. 10, suppl. p. 8s, 1941 [abs.] (available online, with subscription, from JSTOR www.jstor.org)


Summary:

Pg. 137. Brown County bed of Valentine formation of Ogallala group. Name applied to a 2-foot bed of diatomaceous marl, from which arboreous flora was collected and described by Chaney and Elias, 1936 [Late Tertiary floras from the High Plains, Carnegie Inst. Washington Pub., no. 476]. Is at a slightly lower horizon than Niobrara River channel sand of the Valentine. Age is Pliocene.
[Notable exposures in Brown Co., northwestern NE.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 495, Valentine entry p. 4042-4043).


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