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- Five Point limestone member
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- Overview
Summary:
Five Point limestone member of Admire shale of Wabaunsee group. Age is Late Pennsylvanian (Virgil). [Five Point limestone is shown as underlying Stine shale and overlying West Branch shale, all included in Admire shale. Origin of name not stated.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 736); GNC KS-NE Pennsylvanian Corr. Chart, sheet 2, Oct. 1936.
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- Five Point limestone
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- Principal reference
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- Limestone
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- Forest City basin
Summary:
Pg. 5. Five Point limestone of Admire group. Was named from exposures in Five Point Valley, Richardson Co., NE. Has been traced south through Kansas to Oklahoma, and is recognized by Kansas Survey. Thickness 1 to 3 feet. Age is considered Permian (lower part of Big Blue).
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 736); GNC KS-NE Pennsylvanian Corr. Chart, sheet 2, Oct. 1936.
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- Five Point limestone
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- Age modified
Summary:
Five Point limestone of Admire group. Transferred all beds above Brownville limestone to Permian. (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.)
[This change in Permian-Pennsylvanian boundary has not been considered by the USGS for its publications (ca. 1938).]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 736); GNC KS-NE Pennsylvanian Corr. Chart, sheet 2, Oct. 1936.
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- Five Point limestone
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- Forest City basin
Summary:
E.C. Reed (Asst. State Geol. Nebraska), 1936 (letter dated Oct. 16) states type locality of Five Point limestone is Five Point Creek, near Five Point School, in sec. 25, T. 1 N., R. 15 E., Richardson Co., NE, 2 mi south and 4.5 mi west of Falls City.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 736).
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- Five Point limestone member*
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Summary:
Pg. 2273, 2274 (fig. 1). Five Point limestone member of Janesville shale. Reallocated to member status in Janesville shale (new). Underlies Hamlin shale member; overlies West Branch shale member. Age is Early Permian (Wolfcampian).
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1360).
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- Five Point Limestone Member*
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- Biostratigraphic dating
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- Chautauqua platform
- Cherokee basin
- Forest City basin
- Nemaha anticline
Summary:
Five Point Limestone Member of Janesville Shale of Admire Group. Overlies West Branch Shale Member and underlies Hamlin Shale Member, both of Janesville. Conodont species association indicates the STREPTOGNATHODUS biofacies; nearshore marine depositional environment. Age is Late Pennsylvanian (late Gzhelian; STREPTOGNATHODUS FLEXUOSUS conodont zone).
Described from measured sections in Cowley, Greenwood, Pottawatomie, and Wabaunsee Counties, eastern Kansas, and Osage County, northern Oklahoma. (Locs. 1, 2, 4, A1, A11, A16, A17, A19, A25, A26.)
Source: Publication.
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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