- Usage in publication:
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- Emporia reservoir shales
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Shale
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Forest City basin
Summary:
Emporia reservoir shales. Arenaceous shales, 77 feet thick, carrying 6-inch coal bed at top. Overlie Emporia buff limestones and underlie Admire shales and limestones. [In same publication Wooster used Emporia beds to cover all rocks between top of Burlingame limestone and top of his Emporia reservoir shales, making three different uses of Emporia.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 687).
- Usage in publication:
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- Emporia reservoir shalesâ€
- Modifications:
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- Abandoned
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Forest City basin
Summary:
†Emporia reservoir shales. Preoccupied. Lower part of Admire shale, as Admire was used for many years.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 687).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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