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Geologic Unit: Cave Springs
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Cave Springs sandstone
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cherokee basin
Publication:

Haworth, Erasmus, 1898, Stratigraphy of the Kansas coal measures, Part 1, IN Special report on coal: Kansas Geological Survey [Report], v. 3, p. 13-105.


Summary:

Pg. 66. Cave Springs sandstone. Suggested by G.I. Adams for sandstone separating the two limestone composing Elk Falls limestone in vicinity of Cave Springs, Elk County, southern Kansas. In some areas the beds separating these limestones are shales. Age is Pennsylvanian.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 378).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cave Springs sandstone†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cherokee basin
Publication:

Adams, G.I., 1903, Stratigraphy of the region, IN Adams, G.I, Girty, G.H., and White, David, Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Upper Carboniferous rocks of the Kansas section: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 211, p. 15-72.


Summary:

Pg. 47. The sandstones that occupy interval of Tecumseh shale south of Elk River were called Cave Springs sandstones by Haworth (1898).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 378).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cave Springs sandstone†
  • 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. 178. [Refers to Adams' (1903) statement, and abandons name, without explanation.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 378).


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

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