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  • Usage in publication:
    • Doniphan shale bed
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Forest City basin
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. 44, 47. Doniphan shale bed of Lecompton limestone member of Shawnee formation. A bluish argillaceous shale with some sand and rusty calcareous material. Is exposed in Missouri and Kansas, but probably not exposed in Nebraska. Is 14+ feet thick in Missouri and 7 to 8 feet thick in Kansas. Underlies Big Springs limestone and overlies Spring Branch limestone, all in Lecompton limestone. Age is Late Pennsylvanian (Missouri age). Report includes cross sections, measured sections, geologic maps, stratigraphic tables.
Named from expousres in northern part of Doniphan Co., northeastern KS.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 622); 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:
    • Doniphan shale member*
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
Publication:

Moore, R.C., 1948, Classification of Pennsylvanian rocks in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and northern Oklahoma: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 32, no. 11, p. 2011-2040. [Available online, with subscription, from AAPG archives: http://www.aapg.org/datasystems or http://search.datapages.com]


Summary:

Pg. 2035 (fig. 5); 1949, Kansas Geol. Survey Bull., no. 83, p. 126 (fig. 22), 153. Doniphan shale member of Lecompton formation. Underlies Big Springs limestone member; overlies Spring Branch limestone member. Age is Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian). This is classification agreed upon by State Geological Survey of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, May 1947.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1137-1138).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Doniphan shale member*
  • Modifications:
    • Principal reference
Publication:

Condra, G.E., 1949, The nomenclature, type localities, and correlation of the Pennsylvanian subdivisions in eastern Nebraska and adjacent states: Nebraska Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 16, 67 p.


Summary:

Pg. 24. Doniphan shale member of Lecompton limestone. Thickness 4 to 5 feet in Iowa and Nebraska and 5 to 10 feet in Kansas. Age is Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian). Type locality stated.
Type locality: in Missouri River bluffs, northeastern Doniphan Co., northeastern KS.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1137-1138).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Doniphan shale member*
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
Publication:

Moore, R.C., Frye, J.C., Jewett, J.M., Lee, Wallace, and O'Connor, H.G., 1951, The Kansas rock column: Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 89, 132 p.


Summary:

Pg. 66. Doniphan shale member of Lecompton limestone. Notes thickness in Kansas as 5 to 34 feet. Contains some red shale and prominent sandstone beds in southern Kansas. Age is Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1137-1138).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Doniphan shale member*
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
Publication:

Hershey, H.G., Brown, C.N., Northup, R.C., and Van Eck, Orville, 1960, Highway construction materials from the consolidated rocks of southwestern Iowa: Iowa Highway Research Bulletin, no. 15, 151 p.


Summary:

Pg. 20, fig. 5. Doniphan shale member of Lecompton limestone. Dark-gray to buff, calcareous shale with beds of fossiliferous nodular limestone. Thickness 3 to 6 feet. Underlies Big Springs limestone member; overlies Spring Branch limestone member. Age is Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1137-1138).


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