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  • Usage in publication:
    • Flint Hills division
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Nemaha anticline
    • Forest City basin
Publication:

Cragin, F.W., 1896, The Permian system in Kansas: Colorado College Studies, v. 6, p. 1-48., See also "Modern classifications of the Permian rocks of Kansas and Nebraska," compiled by M.G. Wilmarth, Secretary of Committee on Geologic Names, USGS unpub. corr. chart, Oct. 1936, 1 sheet


Summary:

Pg. 3, 6-9. Flint Hills division. Lower division of Big Blue series. Divided into Chase limestones above (265 feet thick) and Neosho shales below (130 feet thick). Overlain by Sumner division. Age is Permian.
Named from Flint Hills, Cowley and Butler Cos., central KS.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 742).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Flint Hills division†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Nemaha anticline
    • Forest City 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:

†Flint Hills division [considered abandoned]. Not used in later classifications [post-Cragin 1896] of the Kansas Geol. Survey.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 742).


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

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