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

Haworth, Erasmus, and Kirk, M.Z., 1894, A geologic section along the Neosho River from the Mississippian formation of the Indian Territory to White City, Kansas, and along the Cottonwood River from Wyckoff to Peabody, IN Report on field work in geology for season of 1893, by the Department of Physical Geology and Mineralogy, University of Kansas: Kansas University Quarterly, v. 2, no. 3, p. 104-115.


Summary:

Pg. 108, 118. Erie limestone. System of limestones, few feet to 60 feet thick, overlying Laneville shales and underlying Chanute shales. [Some later reports have called the beds Erie or Triple limestone system.] Age is Pennsylvanian.
Named from Erie, Neosho Co., eastern KS.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 696).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Erie limestone†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
Publication:

Wilmarth, M.G., 1936, [Selected Geologic Names Committee remarks (ca. 1935-1938) on Carboniferous and Permian rocks of the Midcontinent], IN Wilmarth, M.G., 1938, Lexicon of geologic names of the United States (including Alaska): U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 896, pts. 1-2, 2396 p.


Summary:

According to R.C. Moore, 1936 (Kansas Geol. Survey Bull., no. 22), †Erie limestone of Haworth extended from top of Dennis limestone down to base of Hertha limestone.
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.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 696).


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

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