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Geologic Unit: Dover
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Dover shale and sandstone
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Forest City basin
Publication:

Beede, J.W., 1898, The stratigraphy of Shawnee County, Kansas: Kansas Academy of Sciences Transactions, v. 15, p. 27-34.


Summary:

Pg. 31. Dover shale and sandstone. Nearly unfossiliferous shale, 85 feet thick of very arenaceous texture, of light-yellow to deep brownish-red color, containing much argillaceous sandstone. Included in Upper Coal Measures. [From statement on p. 28 appears to underlie Dover limestone and overlie Chocolate limestone of G.C. Swallow. Named from Dover, Shawnee Co., northeastern KS.] Age is Pennsylvanian.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 628).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Dover shale and sandstone†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
Publication:

Moore, R.C., 1936, Stratigraphic classification of the Pennsylvanian rocks of Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 22, 256 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 2


Summary:

Pg. 235, 251. †Dover shale and sandstone. Adopted Dover limestone and discarded Dover shale and sandstone.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 628).


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

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