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  • Usage in publication:
    • Buxton formation
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
    • Sandstone
    • Coal
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cherokee basin
Publication:

Schrader, F.C., and Haworth, Erasmus, 1905, Oil and gas of the Independence quadrangle, Kansas, IN Emmons, S.F., and Eckel, E.C., Contributions to economic geology, 1904: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 260, p. 446-458.


Summary:

Pg. 447. Buxton formation. Shales, with beds of sandstone and coal and lenses of limestone; 320 feet thick. Underlies Painterhood [Oread] limestone and overlies Piqua [Stanton] limestone. Age is Pennsylvanian.
Named from Buxton, Wilson Co., southeastern KS.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 306).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Buxton formation†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cherokee basin
Publication:

Moore, R.C., 1936, Stratigraphic classification of the Pennsylvanian rocks of Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 22, 256 p., See also "Modern classifications of the Pennsylvanian rocks of eastern Kansas and southeastern Nebraska," compiled by M.G. Wilmarth, Secretary of Committee on Geologic Names, USGS unpub. corr. chart, Oct. 1936, sheet 2


Summary:

Pg. 139. †Buxton formation includes beds from top of †Piqua (Stanton) limestone to base of †Painterhood (Oread) limestone.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 306); GNC KS-NE Pennsylvanian Corr. Chart, sheet 2, Oct. 1936.


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

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