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Geologic Unit: Dun
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Dun limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cherokee basin
Publication:

Hay, Robert, 1887, A geological section in Wilson County, Kansas: Kansas Academy of Sciences Transactions, 18th annual meeting, Manhattan, KS, November 10-12, 1885, v. 10, p. 6-8.


Summary:

Pg. 7. Dun limestone. Limestone, 100 feet thick, in middle of interval between Fall River sandstone and Neodesha limestones in Wilson County, southeastern Kansas. Probably same as thick Humboldt limestone of Neosho Valley, having some irregularity of structure and apparently same fossils. Separated from underlying Neodesha sandstone by 80 to 100 feet of shale and from overlying Fall River sandstone by 145 feet of shale, limestone, and sandstone. Age is Pennsylvanian.
Named from Dun, Wilson Co., southeastern KS.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 640).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Dun limestone†
  • 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. 124. †Dun limestone of Hay included Plattsburg, Vilas, and Stanton formations of Lansing group.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 2297); GNC KS-NE Pennsylvanian Corr. Chart, sheet 2, Oct. 1936.


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