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  • Usage in publication:
    • Cedar Creek limestone member
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Nemaha anticline
Publication:

Condra, G.E., and Bengtson, N.A., 1915, The Pennsylvanian formations of southeastern Nebraska: Nebraska Academy of Sciences Publications, v. 9, no. 2, 60 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 1


Summary:

Pg. 7, 12, 21, 36. Cedar Creek limestone member of Platte shale. Light-colored and massive except upper part, which is thin bedded. Thickness 1.5 to 8 feet. Lies 13 to 30 feet below top of Platte shales, and is separated from underlying Cullom limestone by 6 to 8 feet of shale. Age is Pennsylvanian. Report includes measured sections, cross sections.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 381-382); GNC KS-NE Pennsylvanian Corr. Chart, sheet 1, Oct. 1936; supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cedar Creek limestone bed
  • Modifications:
    • Principal reference
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Nemaha anticline
Publication:

Condra, G.E., 1927, The stratigraphy of the Pennsylvanian system in Nebraska: Nebraska Geological Survey Bulletin, 2nd series, no. 1, 291 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 1


Summary:

Pg. 48. Cedar Creek limestone bed of Tecumseh shale member of Shawnee formation. In middle of Tecumseh shale, is 2 to 9 feet thick. Age is Pennsylvanian. Report includes cross sections, measured sections, geologic maps, stratigraphic tables.
Best developed at type locality on Cedar Creek, 1.5 mi southwest of town of Cedar Creek [Cass Co., southeastern NE]. Probably does not extend to Missouri and Kansas.
[The shale in which this limestone occurs is now (ca. 1938) known not to be Tecumseh shale (See R.C. Moore, Kansas Geol. Survey Bull. 22, 1936, p. 178. Moore also abandoned the name.)]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 381-382); GNC KS-NE Pennsylvanian Corr. Chart, sheet 1, Oct. 1936; supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cedar Creek limestone†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
Publication:

Condra, G.E., 1930, Correlation of the Pennsylvanian beds in the Platte and Jones Point sections of Nebraska: Nebraska Geological Survey Bulletin, 2nd series, no. 3, 57 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 1


Summary:

Pg. 11. †Cedar Creek limestone is abandoned for another name, which has priority. The supposed Cedar Creek limestone of Bull. 1 [Condra, 1927, Nebraska Geological Survey Bull., 2nd ser., no. 1] is thought to be the Iola limestone.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 381-382); GNC KS-NE Pennsylvanian Corr. Chart, sheet 1, Oct. 1936.


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