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Geologic Unit: Crusher Hill
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Crusher Hill alternating shales and limestones
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Nemaha anticline
    • Forest City basin
Publication:

Wooster, L.C., 1905, The Carboniferous rock system of eastern Kansas: Emporia, Kansas, Rowland Printing Office, 12 p., Private publication, Emporia, KS


Summary:

Pg. 9. Crusher Hill alternating shales and limestones in Council Grove group.
[No description except for statement that thickness is 140 feet and that the beds form lower part of Strong City beds, underlie Strong flints [Wreford limestone] and overlie 12 feet of shale [Florena] which rests on Cottonwood limestone. Origin of name not stated. Present in central Kansas. Age is Permian.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 550).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Crusher Hill alternating shales and limestones†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Nemaha anticline
    • Forest City basin
Publication:

Wilmarth, M.G., 1935, [Selected Geologic Names Committee remarks (ca. 1930-1935) 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., See also Wilmarth, M.G., compiler, USGS unpub. corr. charts of Missouri (Mar. 1930); Iowa (Apr. 1930); Texas (Sept. 1930); Oklahoma (Jan. 1931, Feb. 1931); Kansas and Nebraska (Oct. 1936)


Summary:

†Crusher Hill alternating shales and limestones in Council Grove group. Abandoned. Same as Neosho shale member, older name [†Neosho later abandoned (rocks reallocated to many formations in Council Grove Group); see GNC remark (ca. 1930-1935) under Neosho].

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 550).


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

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"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 ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).

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