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

Haworth, Erasmus, 1898, Stratigraphy of the Kansas coal measures, Part 1, IN Special report on coal: Kansas Geological Survey [Report], v. 3, p. 13-105.


Summary:

Pg. 67, 73. Eureka limestone proposed by G.I. Adams for limestone which serves a protector and assists in production of permanent escarpment extending from madison [in directions described in detail] to south line of State. Overlies what seems to be equivalent of Osage shales [really a higher shale, the Scranton]. Same as Burlingame limestone [older name]. Age is Late Pennsylvanian (Virgil).
Named from Eureka, Greenwood Co., southeastern KS.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 707); GNC KS-NE Pennsylvanian Corr. Chart, sheet 2, Oct. 1936.


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Eureka limestone†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cherokee basin
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:

†Eureka limestone preoccupied. Same as Burlingame limestone, according to R.C. Moore, 1936 (Kansas Geol. Survey Bull., no. 22, p. 215).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 707); 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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