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  • Usage in publication:
    • Kenosha shale bed
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Nemaha anticline
Publication:

Condra, G.E., 1930, Correlation of the Pennsylvanian beds in the Platte and Jones Point sections of Nebraska: Nebraska Geological Survey Bulletin, 2nd series, no. 3, 57 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 1


Summary:

Pg. 47, 52. Kenosha shale bed of Tecumseh shale member of Shawnee group. Proposed in this report for the 6 or 7 feet of shale at base of Tecumseh shale member, and underlying Ost limestone. Occurs above Avoca limestone bed of Lecompton limestone member of Shawnee group. Age is Pennsylvanian.
Type locality: in Missouri River bluff near Kenosha landing at mouth of second small valley south of King Hill, Case Co., southeastern NE. Named from Kenosha landing.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1083); GNC KS-NE Pennsylvanian Corr. Chart, sheet 1, Oct. 1936; supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


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