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  • Usage in publication:
    • Columbus sandstone
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
  • 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:

Pg. 106. Columbus sandstone. The most extensive sandstone system in Cherokee shales. Lies more than 200 feet above base of Cherokee and in places divides it into two parts. [Age is Pennsylvanian.]
Named for outcrops along Brush Creek, east of Columbus, Cherokee Co., southeastern KS.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 496).


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

Pierce, W.G., and Courtier, W.H., 1938, Geology and coal resources of the southeastern Kansas coal field in Crawford, Cherokee, and Labette Counties, with a report on Pennsylvanian invertebrate faunas of southeastern Kansas by J.S. Williams: Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 24, 122 p., (incl. geologic maps)


Summary:

[advance copy]. The term "Columbus sandstone" was proposed by Haworth and Kirk for the sandstone exposed southeast of Columbus, Kansas, but was rather loosely defined and would probably include both Little Cabin and Bluejacket sandstone members of Cherokee shale.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 496).


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

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