- Usage in publication:
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- Downs limestone
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Salina basin
Summary:
Pg. 50. Downs limestone. Limestone 6 to 12 inches thick, in Russell formation (lower part of Benton division), quarried near Downs [Osborne County, north-central Kansas] and extensively used for fence posts, so that it may appropriately be called Fencepost limestone. Age is Late Cretaceous.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 629).
- Usage in publication:
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- Downs limestone†
- Modifications:
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- Abandoned
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Central Kansas uplift
Summary:
Pg. 49-51. Cragin proposed "Downs limestone" for the "fence-post limestone" forming top bed of Greenhorn limestone in Russell County, north-central Kansas. Although this bed is unusually persistent, for one so thin, it does not merit classification as a separate member, and its local name "fence-post limestone" is widely known and quite satisfactory.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 629).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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