Pg. 29. Little Pawnee shale member of Cass formation of Douglas group. Name applied to middle member of formation. Upper part of member is bluish gray; middle part is dark and somewhat fissile; lower part dark gray and fossiliferous; combined thickness 1.5 to 1.75 feet. Underlies Haskell limestone member; overlies Shoemaker limestone member. Age is Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian).
Type locality: Little Pawnee Creek Valley, in SE/4 sec. 9, T. 12 N., R. 10 E., Saunders Co., southeastern NE.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 2192).

Pg. D525; Appendix D, p. D10. Little Pawnee Shale Member of Cass Formation of Douglas Group. At reference section, thickness about 6 feet. Upper 4.5 feet is medium-gray, reddish-brown weathering shale containing ironstone concretions; basal 1.5 feet is black to dark-gray fissile shale. Overlies Haskell Limestone Member and underlies Shoemaker Limestone Member, both of Cass Formation. (= basal Robbins Shale Member of Lawrence Formation in Kansas, Zeller, ed., 1968, Kansas Geol. Survey Bull., no. 189.) Age is Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian).
Reference section: in cutbank on Pigeon Creek at Pigeon Hill Wildlife area, 1,200 ft south of abandoned RR bed, and 800 ft east of bridge on I-29, in SW/4 NW/4 NW/4 sec. 24, T. 56 N., R. 35 W., 3 mi south of intersection of I-29 and I-229, and 8 mi southeast of St. Joseph City Hall, St. Joseph South 7.5-min quadrangle, Buchanan Co., MO.

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