- Usage in publication:
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- Elk Falls limestone
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Cherokee basin
Summary:
Pg. 65-66, 105. Elk Falls limestone. Proposed by G.I. Adams in field notes for two well-defined limestones separated by a thin bed of arenaceous shales which here and there develop into well-formed sandstone. Overlies Lecompton shales and underlies Severy shales in Greenwood and Chautauqua Counties, southern Kansas. Corresponds to Deer Creek limestone, Tecumseh shales, and Lecompton limestone, the two limestones being brought closer together to south. Age is Pennsylvanian.
Named from Elk Falls, Elk Co., southern KS.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 670).
- Usage in publication:
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- Elk Falls limestone†
- Modifications:
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- Abandoned
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Cherokee basin
Summary:
Pg. 172, 182, 194. †Elk Falls Limestone abandoned. Included Lecompton limestone to Topeka limestone inclusive.
[See "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.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 670); GNC KS-NE Pennsylvanian Corr. Chart, sheet 2, Oct. 1936.
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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