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

Haworth, Erasmus, and Bennett, John, 1908, The nomenclature of the Kansas Coal-Measures employed by the Kansas State Geological Survey: Kansas Academy of Sciences Transactions, v. 21, pt. 1, p. __., December, 1907


Summary:

Pg. 74. Coffeyville limestone. Overlies Walnut shale and underlies Pleasanton shales. Age is Pennsylvanian.
Named from Coffeyville, Montgomery Co., southeastern KS.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 483).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Coffeyville limestone†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • 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:

Preoccupied. [Coffeyville formation of Schrader and Haworth (1905) has priority]. Same as Lenapah limestone.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 483).


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

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"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

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