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Geologic Units: Holden
Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Holden group
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
    • Limestone
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Forest City basin
Publication:

Broadhead, G.C., 1873, Geology of northwestern Missouri, [with a section on Lincoln County by W.B. Potter], IN Preliminary report on the iron ores and coal fields from the field work of 1872: Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines Report, pt. 2, 441 p.


Summary:

Pg. 169, 194 [Chapter VI, Geological report on the country adjacent to the Pacific RR, from Sedalia to Kansas City, p. 157-216]. Holden group. Shales, limestones, and sandstones, 59 feet thick, including beds Nos. 55 to 64 of detailed section of lower Coal Measures from Sedalia to Kansas City. Underlies Mound group and overlies Lexington group. [Age is Pennsylvanian.]
Named from exposures at Holden, Johnson Co., northwestern MO.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 968).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Holden group†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Forest City basin
Publication:

Wilmarth, M.G., 1930, [Selected Geologic Names Committee remarks (ca. 1930) 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., See also Wilmarth, M.G., compiler, USGS unpub. corr. charts of Missouri (Mar. 1930); Iowa (Apr. 1930); Texas (Sept. 1930); Oklahoma (Jan. 1931, Feb. 1931); Kansas and Nebraska (Oct. 1936)


Summary:

†Holden group. Is lower part of Pleasanton formation [= Desmoinesian Altamont Formation and Bandera Shale in Marmaton Group (ca. 2000).]
See also "Tentative correlation of the named geologic units of Missouri," compiled by M.G. Wilmarth, Secretary of Committee on Geologic Names, USGS unpub. corr. chart, Mar. 1930, sheet 1 [Devonian to Quaternary].

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 968); GNC MO Corr. Chart, sheet 1, Mar. 1930; Missouri lexicon (Thompson, 2001, Missouri Geol. Survey Rpt. Inv., no. 73, p. 9-10, 21-22).


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

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