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Geologic Unit: Eureka
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Eureka beds
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cherokee basin
Publication:

Wooster, L.C., 1905, The Carboniferous rock system of eastern Kansas: Emporia, Kansas, Rowland Printing Office, 12 p., Private publication, Emporia, KS


Summary:

Eureka beds introduced [reason not stated] to include Topeka limestone, Severy shales, Howard limestone, Burlingame shales, and Burlingame limestone. [Age is Late Pennsylvanian (Virgil).]
Probably named from Eureka, Greenwood Co., eastern KS.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Eureka beds†
  • 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 beds preoccupied and conflicts with established classification.

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


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

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

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