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Geologic Unit: Dellvale
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Dellvale ash bed
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Volcanic ash
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Central Kansas uplift
Publication:

Swineford, Ada, Frye, J.C., and Leonard, A. Byron, 1955, Petrography of the late Tertiary volcanic ash falls in the central Great Plains [Kansas-Nebraska]: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 25, no. 4, p. 243-261. [Available online, with subscription, from AAPG archives: http://www.aapg.org/datasystems or http://search.datapages.com]


Summary:

Pg. 244 (fig. 1), 254. Dellvale ash bed of Ash Hollow member of Ogallala formation. Name applied to volcanic ash bed. Thickness at type locality 9.5 feet; occurs within silts and sandy silts which overlie a thick fossiliferous sand and gravel bed. Lies stratigraphically above Fort Wallace ash bed (new) and below Reager ash bed. Age is Pliocene.
Named from exposures southeast of Dellvale, in NW/4 NW/4 sec. 2, T. 4 S., R. 24 W., Norton Co., northwestern KS.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1081).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Dellvale bed
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Central Kansas uplift
Publication:

Frye, J.C., Leonard, A. Byron, and Swineford, Ada, 1956, Stratigraphy of the Ogallala formation (Neogene) of northern Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 118, 92 p.


Summary:

Pg. 28, 44 (fig. 2), 74-75 (measured section), pl. Dellvale bed of Ash Hollow member of Ogallala formation. Local in geographic extent; recognized in a few places in Norton and Phillips Counties, northwestern Kansas. Notable measured section (Almena section, modified from Frye and Leonard, 1949), in W/2 sec. 16, T. 2 S., R. 21 W., Norton Co., where the Dellvale is 6.5 feet thick, lies about 45 feet above the contact between the Ash Hollow and underlying Valentine member of Ogallala formation; overlies silt and sand beds carrying fossil seed KRYNITZKIA CORONIFORMIS. Age is late Tertiary (Pliocene).
[GNC remark (ca. 2010): Ash Hollow Member later discarded by the Kansas Geol. Survey. See Ludvigson and others, 2009, Kansas Geol. Survey Bull., no. 256, pt. 2.]

Source: Publication.


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