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  • Usage in publication:
    • Burlington limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Forest City basin
Publication:

Haworth, Erasmus, and Kirk, M.Z., 1894, A geologic section along the Neosho River from the Mississippian formation of the Indian Territory to White City, Kansas, and along the Cottonwood River from Wyckoff to Peabody, IN Report on field work in geology for season of 1893, by the Department of Physical Geology and Mineralogy, University of Kansas: Kansas University Quarterly, v. 2, no. 3, p. 104-115.


Summary:

Pg. 110, 120-121, 125. Burlington limestone or Garnett limestone. Hard, compact limestones separated into two parts by 8 to 10 feet of shale. Here called Burlington or Garnett limestone, ultimate choice of name being left to future. Overlies Le Roy shales. Separated from overlying Strawn limestone by 75 to 100 feet of shale. [Age is Pennsylvanian.]
Named from Burlington, Coffey Co., eastern KS.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 299)


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Burlington limestone†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Forest City basin
Publication:

Wilmarth, M.G., 1936, [Selected Geologic Names Committee remarks (ca. 1935-1938) on Carboniferous and Permian rocks of the Midcontinent], 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:

†Burlington limestone abandoned. Same as Oread limestone, according to R.C. Moore, 1936 (Kansas Geol. Survey Bull., no. 22).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 299).


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

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