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  • Usage in publication:
    • Hooser shale member
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Nemaha anticline
Publication:

Condra, G.E., and Upp, J.E., 1931, Correlation of the Big Blue series in Nebraska: Nebraska Geological Survey Bulletin, 2nd series, no. 6, 74 p., 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. 20, 23. Hooser shale member of Garrison formation of Council Grove group. Hooser shale, new name for basal part of Easly Creek shale of Condra 1927. It consists of (descending): (1) olive shale, calcareous, argillaceous, fossiliferous, weathers buff, 2 feet; (2) shale, weathered buff, with boxwork at places, 1 foot; (3) shale, grayish, with calcareous concretionary subzone near base and reddish subzone below middle, 8 feet. Thickness averages about 11 feet from Nebraska to Oklahoma. Underlies Middleburg limestone member and overlies Eiss limestone member, both of Garrison formation of Council Grove group. Fossils (bryozoans, brachiopods, pelecypods, gastropods). Age is Permian (Big Blue).
Type locality: highway cut and ravine just east of Hooser, southeastern Cowley Co., eastern KS. Named from Hooser.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 979); GNC KS-NE Permian Corr. Chart, Oct. 1936; supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Hooser shale member
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Forest City basin
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:

Pg. 4, 7. Hooser shale, middle member of Bader limestone formation of Council Grove group. Overlies Eiss limestone member and underlies Middleburg limestone member. Thickness 11 feet. Age is Permian (Big Blue). [See also under Bader.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 979, Bader entry p. 99); GNC KS-NE Permian Corr. Chart, Oct. 1936.


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