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  • Usage in publication:
    • Buckeye shale
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
Publication:

Moore, R.C., 1936, Pennsylvanian and lower "Permian" rocks of the Kansas-Missouri region: Kansas Geological Society Guidebook for the Annual Field Conference, no. 10, p. 7-73., See also USGS unpub. corr. charts of Pennsylvanian and Permian rocks of KS and NE, compiled by M.G. Wilmarth, Secretary of Committee on Geologic Names, Oct. 1936


Summary:

Pg. 12. Wellington shale (restricted) divided into (descending): (1) Carlton limestone (thin-bedded limestone, massive limestone, thin shale, and at base, conglomerate), 17+/- feet thick; (2) Buckeye shale, 45+/- feet thick.
[Origin of new names Carlton and Buckeye not stated.]
[GNC remark (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 896, p. 284): Buckeye shale of Sumner group. Recognized in northeastern Kansas. Age is Permian.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, Carlton entry p. 349); GNC KS-NE Permian Corr. Chart, Oct. 1936.


  • Usage in publication:
    • Buckeye shale
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
Publication:

Garlough, J.L., and Taylor, G.L., 1941, Hugoton gas field, Grant, Haskell, Morton, Stevens, and Seward Counties, Kansas, and Texas County, Oklahoma: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Special Volume, no. 11, p. 78-104.


Summary:

Pg. 87 (table 2). Buckeye shale. Table lists rocks of Sumner group at their outcrop, 200 miles east of Hugoton gas field; Wellington shale is divided into (ascending) Buckeye shale, Carlton limestone, shale, and Geuda salt. Age is Permian.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 512).


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