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Geologic Unit: Carlyle
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Carlyle limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cherokee 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:

Carlyle limestone. Limestone, 4 to 20 feet thick, overlain by Le Roy shales and separated from underlying Iola limestone by 75 feet of shale. [Age is Pennsylvanian.]
Named for Carlyle, Allen Co., eastern KS.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 350)


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Carlyle Limestone†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cherokee basin
Publication:

Wilmarth, M.G., 1925, [Selected Geologic Names Committee remarks (ca. 1925) 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:

According to Hinds and Greene, 1915 (Missouri Bur. Geol. and Mines, v. 13) the limestone exposed at Carlyle is Plattsburg Limestone, but the limestone to which name Carlyle has been applied is an older bed --the Farley limestone bed in their Lane Shale Member.
R.C. Moore, 1936 (Kans. Geol. Surv. Bull. 22, p. 127). Field work shows †Carlyle Limestone at type locality is exact equivalent of Plattsburg. Adams was correct in considering †Carlyle a synonym of Stanton, inasmuch as type Stanton is shown to be type Plattsburg limestone.
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, 2 sheets.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 350).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Carlyle limestone†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
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. 127. Field work shows †Carlyle limestone at type locality is exact equivalent of Plattsburg limestone. Adams was correct in considering †Carlyle a synonym of Stanton, inasmuch as type Stanton is shown to be type Plattsburg limestone.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 350); 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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