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- Fort Scott marble series
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- Original reference
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Cherokee basin
Summary:
Pg. 26. Fort Scott marble series. Series of limestones, shales, and slates, 22 feet 8 inches thick, including beds Nos. 224 to 230, inclusive, of geologic section of eastern Kansas. Underlies Fort Scott coal series and overlies Lower coal series. Includes Fort Scott marble (bed No. 227). [Age is Middle Pennsylvanian.]
[Type area: in Bourbon Co., eastern KS.] Little Osage, near State line; Slick Rock Ford, on the Marmaton, and on Moor's [Moore's] Branch, above the Military Ford; Little Osage below State line. Probably named from exposures at Fort Scott, Bourbon Co., eastern KS.
[Misprint (USGS Bull. 896, p. 759): author stated to be Broadhead; should be Swallow.]
Source: Publication; US geologic names lexicons (USGS Bull. 896, p. 759; USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1401-1402).
- Usage in publication:
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- Fort Scott marble series†
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- Abandoned
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Cherokee basin
Summary:
†Fort Scott marble series. In Cherokee shale [of USGS classification, ca. 1936. 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.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 759).
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