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  • Usage in publication:
    • Bruno limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Sedgwick basin
Publication:

Condra, G.E., and Upp, J.E., 1931, Correlation of the Big Blue series in Nebraska: Nebraska Geological Survey Bulletin, 2nd series, no. 6, 74 p., See also "Modern classifications of the Permian rocks of Kansas and Nebraska," compiled by M.G. Wilmarth, Secretary of Committee on Geologic Names, USGS unpub. corr. chart, Oct. 1936, 1 sheet


Summary:

Pg. 38, 40. Name Bruno limestone applied to medial limestone in Blue Springs shale member of Matfield formation of Chase group. Age is Permian. [See definition under Blue Springs.]
Named from exposures on Bruno Creek, a few mi northeast of Florence, east-central KS.

Source: US geologic names lexicons (USGS Bull. 896, p. 279; USGS Bull. 1200, p. 502); GNC KS-NE Permian Corr. Chart, Oct. 1936.


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