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  • Usage in publication:
    • Canville limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cherokee basin
Publication:

Jewett, J.M., 1932, Brief discussion of the Bronson group in Kansas, IN Carboniferous rocks of eastern Kansas, eastern Nebraska, and western Missouri: Kansas Geological Society Guidebook for the Annual Field Conference, August 28-September 3, 1932, no. 6, p. 99-104.


Summary:

Pg. 99, 102, 103. See also J.M. Jewett, 1933 (Kansas Acad. Sci. Trans., v. 36, p. 131-136). Canville limestone is proposed for limestone next above Galesburg shale and below Stark shale. Been traced by writer from T. 18 S. to T. 29 S. Generally about 3 feet thick, bluish gray, fossiliferous. In southern part of its outcrop it sets off the sandstone and sandy shale (Dodds Creek sandstone) of underlying Galesburg shale from overlying black platy Stark shale, and in northern part it separates the yellow shale, the Galesburg, from the black Stark shale. In northern part of Linn County it is represented by very calcareous shale less than 1 foot thick. Its horizon is known at Kansas City by the plane between Galesburg and Stark shales, which are easily recognized by the color and fossils. Age is Pennsylvanian. Report includes cross section.
Named from Canville Creek, Neosho Co., KS. R.C. Moore, 1936 (Kansas Geol. Survey Bull., no. 22), stated that Jewett is author of this name.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 338); supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Canville limestone member
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cherokee basin

Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • [Canville limestone member]
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cherokee basin
Publication:

Greene, F.C., and Searight, W.V., 1949, Revision of the classification of the post-Cherokee Pennsylvanian beds of Missouri: Missouri Division of Geological Survey and Water Resources Report of Investigations, no. 11, 22 p.


Summary:

Pg. 11-12. Galesburg formation redefined to exclude Canville limestone and Stark shale formerly included in it by the Missouri Geol. Survey.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 615).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Canville limestone member
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cherokee basin
Publication:

Moore, R.C., 1949, Divisions of the Pennsylvanian System in Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 83, 203 p.


Summary:

Pg. 68 (fig. 14), 90-91. Canville limestone member of Dennis formation. Underlies Stark shale; overlies Galesburg formation. This is classification agreed upon by State Geological Surveys of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. In Kansas, locally, a single layer about 1 foot thick; where thickness is greater, up to maximum of 3 feet, two or three beds may occur; member thins southward from type region. Age is Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 615).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Canville limestone member
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cherokee basin
Publication:

Oakes, M.C., 1952, Geology and mineral resources of Tulsa County, Oklahoma (includes parts of adjacent counties), with sections on oil and gas by G.S. Dille, and water resources by J.H. Warren: Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 69, 234 p., (incl. geologic map)


Summary:

Pg. 59, 60, 61; 1940 [abs.] Tulsa Geol. Soc. Digest, v. 9, p. 51. Present locally in northeastern Oklahoma where it is basal member of Hogshooter formation.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 615).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Canville member
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Iowa shelf
Publication:

Welp, T.L., Thomas, L.A., and Dixon, H.R., 1957, A correlation and structural interpretation of the Missourian and Virgilian rocks exposed along the Middle River traverse of Iowa: Iowa Academy of Science Proceedings, v. 64, p. 416-428.


Summary:

Pg. 418 (fig. 1), 421. In measured section near Winterset, Madison County [Iowa], Canville member of Dennis formation is a bluish-gray, discontinuous nodular band about 8 inches thick.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 615).


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