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  • Usage in publication:
    • Lawrence shales
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
    • Sandstone
Publication:

Haworth, Erasmus, 1894, A geologic section along the A.T. and S.F. R.R. [Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad] from Cherryvale to Lawrence and from Ottawa to Holliday, IN Report on field work in geology for season of 1893, by the Department of Physical Geology and Mineralogy, University of Kansas: Kansas University Quarterly, v. 2, no. 3, p. 118-126.


Summary:

Pg. 122. Lawrence shales. Shales, interbedded with sandstones, 210 feet thick, including a thin limestone exposed at Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, and called Institute limestone. Underlies Oread limestone and overlies Ottawa limestone.
[Named from exposures at Lawrence, Douglas Co., eastern KS.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1158).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Lawrence shale member
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Nemaha anticline
Publication:

Condra, G.E., 1927, The stratigraphy of the Pennsylvanian system in Nebraska: Nebraska Geological Survey Bulletin, 2nd series, no. 1, 291 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:

Lawrence shale member of Douglas formation. Includes Shoemaker limestone bed near base. Age is Pennsylvanian (Missouri age). Report includes cross sections, measured sections, geologic maps, stratigraphic tables.

Source: GNC KS-NE Pennsylvanian Corr. Chart, sheet 1, Oct. 1936; supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Lawrence shale
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
Publication:

Wilmarth, M.G., 1935, [Selected Geologic Names Committee remarks (ca. 1930-1935) 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:

In 1896, C.R. Keyes used Lawrence shale in a broader sense, and some early writers applied the name to all beds down to top of Plattsburg limestone. H. Hinds and F.C. Greene, 1915 (Missouri Bur. Geol. and Mines, v. 13), defined Lawrence shale as underlying Oread limestone and overlying Iatan limestone, and for many succeeding years that was the generally accepted definition, the (descending) Oread limestone, Lawrence shale, Iatan limestone, and Weston shale all being included in Douglas group (or formation). For the innovations in this terminology introduced by R.C. Moore in 1931 and 1932 see under Weston shale. See also Kansas-Nebraska chart compiled by M.G. Wilmarth, 1936. N.D. Newell, 1935 (Kansas Geol. Survey Bull., no. 21) followed Moore's restricted definition of Lawrence shale. R.C. Moore, 1936 (Kansas Geol. Survey Bull., no. 22, p. 146, 154, etc.), still further restricted Lawrence shale by transferring (under new name Robbins shale) to his Stranger formation the basal part of his previously restricted Lawrence shale of southern Kansas. (See 1936 entry under Stranger formation.)
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, 2 sheets.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1158).


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