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  • Usage in publication:
    • Grandhaven limestone(?)
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
Publication:

Condra, G.E., 1935, Geologic cross-section, Forest City, Missouri to south of Du Bois, Nebraska: Nebraska Geological Survey Paper, no. 8, 23 p., Issued late in 1935. See also USGS unpub. corr. charts of Pennsylvanian and Permian rocks of KS and NE, compiled by M.G. Wilmarth, Secretary of Committee on Geologic Names, Oct. 1936


Summary:

(Late in 1935.) Pg. 10. Applied Grandhaven(?) to 1 foot of gray, nodular, arenaceous limestone, forming a member in lower part of his [/]Friedrich-Dry shale, and lying 3 feet above his Dover limestone formation. Age is Late Pennsylvanian (Virgil).
[Origin of name not stated.]
[The use of a hyphen between undifferentiated [members] is not considered proper notation (CSN, 1933).]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 853); GNC KS-NE Pennsylvanian Corr. Chart, sheet 2, Oct. 1936.


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Grandhaven limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cherokee basin
Publication:

Moore, R.C., 1935, [Table opp. p. 14, general distribution of Pennsylvanian formations in northeastern Kansas], IN Ockerman, J.W., Subsurface studies in northeastern Kansas: University of Kansas Bulletin, no. 20, 78 p., Issued May 1, 1935. See also "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


Summary:

Grandhaven limestone of Wabaunsee group. Underlies Friedrich shale and overlies Dry shale. Age is Late Pennsylvanian (Virgil).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 853); GNC KS-NE Pennsylvanian Corr. Chart, sheet 2, Oct. 1936.


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Grandhaven limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Principal reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Forest City basin
Publication:

Moore, R.C., 1936, Stratigraphic classification of the Pennsylvanian rocks of Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 22, 256 p., See also "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


Summary:

Pg. 49, 237. Grandhaven limestone. Overlies Dry shale and underlies Friedrich shale. Commonly consists of 2 limestone members separated by a few feet of shale. The lower limestone is 0.5 to 5 feet thick, gray to bluish, and unlike the older Dover limestone. Contains many fusulinids in some exposures. The upper limestone is 1 to 8 feet thick, very light-gray, weathering almost white, and is characterized by abundant algal deposits, and closely resembles upper member of Dover limestone. The shale between the 2 limestones is mostly bluish gray, clayey to calcareous, and 4 to 10 feet thick. The Grandhaven limestone is recognized from Shawnee County, northeastern Kansas, south to Oklahoma, but is not seen north of Kansas River. Age is Late Pennsylvanian (Virgil).
Type locality: near Grandhaven, in sec. 31, T. 13 S., R. 14 E., Shawnee Co., northeastern KS.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 853); GNC KS-NE Pennsylvanian Corr. Chart, sheet 2, Oct. 1936.


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Grandhaven limestone member*
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
Publication:

Moore, R.C., and Mudge, M.R., 1956, Reclassification of some Lower Permian and Upper Pennsylvanian strata in northern Midcontinent, IN Geological notes: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 40, no. 9, p. 2271-2278. [Available online, with subscription, from AAPG archives: http://www.aapg.org/datasystems or http://search.datapages.com]


Summary:

Pg. 2274 (fig. 1), 2275. Grandhaven limestone member of Stotler limestone. Rank reduced to member status in Stotler limestone (new). Overlies Dry shale member; underlies Friedrich shale member of Root shale (new). Age is Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1565).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Grandhaven limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
Publication:

Hershey, H.G., Brown, C.N., Northup, R.C., and Van Eck, Orville, 1960, Highway construction materials from the consolidated rocks of southwestern Iowa: Iowa Highway Research Bulletin, no. 15, 151 p.


Summary:

Pg. 11, fig. 5. Grandhaven limestone of Wabaunsee group. Bluish gray, weathers to buff brown, commonly micaceous and argillaceous; upper part tends to be slabby. Thickness about 2 feet. Underlies Friedrich shale; overlies Dry shale. Condra and Reed suggest that their Morton limestone may occupy horizon of Grandhaven limestone. Age is Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1565).


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