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  • Usage in publication:
    • Long Creek limestone bed
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Forest City basin
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:

Pg. 84, 85, 88. Long Creek limestone bed of Elmdale shale member of Wabaunsee formation. Usually weathers buff to yellowish, somewhat cavernous and irregular. Thickness 3.25 to 5 feet in Nebraska and 3 to 6 feet in northeastern Kansas. Underlies Johnson shale and overlies Hughes Creek shale, all in Elmdale shale member. Age is Late Pennsylvanian (Missouri age). Report includes cross sections, measured sections, geologic maps, stratigraphic tables.
Named from exposures on Longs Creek, at the foot of the bluff west of cemetery at Auburn, Nemaha Co., southeastern NE.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1212); 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:
    • Long Creek limestone 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. 8. Long Creek limestone member of Foraker limestone formation of Council Grove group. Extended Foraker limestone into Nebraska and divided it into (descending): Long Creek limestone, 3 to 6 feet; Hughes Creek shale, 36 to 38 feet; and Americus limestone, 2 to 3 feet. Age is considered Permian (lower part of Big Blue).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1212); GNC KS-NE Pennsylvanian Corr. Chart, sheet 2, Oct. 1936.


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Long Creek limestone member
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
Publication:

Moore, R.C., 1936, Stratigraphic classification of the Pennsylvanian rocks of Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 22, 256 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 2


Summary:

Long Creek limestone member of Foraker limestone of Council Grove group. Transferred this unit to Permian. This change in Permian-Pennsylvanian boundary has not been considered by the USGS for its publications [ca. 1938].

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1212); GNC KS-NE Pennsylvanian Corr. Chart, sheet 2, Oct. 1936.


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Long Creek limestone member
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Chautauqua platform
Publication:

Moore, R.C., 1937, Annotated index of stratigraphic terms applied to Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian rocks in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma, IN Southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma: Kansas Geological Society Guidebook for the Annual Field Conference, no. 11, p. 99-106.


Summary:

Long Creek limestone member of Foraker limestone. Identifiable in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 2224-2225).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Long Creek limestone member*
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
Publication:

Moore, R.C., Frye, J.C., and Jewett, J.M., 1944, Tabular description of outcropping rocks in Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 52, pt. 4, p. 137-212.


Summary:

Pg. 168; R.C. Moore and others, 1951, Kansas Geol. Survey Bull., no. 89, 48. Long Creek limestone member of Foraker limestone of Council Grove group. Alternating beds of yellow limestone and shale, or thin-bedded limestone, locally containing abundance of fusulines in northern part of outcrop area; in southern Kansas, light-gray limestone, more or less massive in upper and lower parts and sparsely fossiliferous. Thickness 5 to 8 feet. Overlies Hughes Creek shale member; underlies Johnson shale. Age is Early Permian (Wolfcampian).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 2224-2225).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Long Creek limestone member*
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Chautauqua platform
Publication:

Greig, P.B., 1959, Geology of Pawnee County, Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 83, 188 p., (incl. geologic maps, scale 1:101,380 and 1:125,000) [http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_26190.htm]


Summary:

Pg. 83-85, pls. 1, 2, 3, 4. Long Creek limestone member of Foraker limestone of Council Grove group. In Oklahoma, persists as far south as T. 16 N., in southern Lincoln County. In northern Osage County, consists of shaly limestone and shale and minor amounts of chert. Ranges in thickness from 9.8 to 12 feet. In Pawnee County, consists of interbedded dense gray limestone and gray marly shale; no chert. Thickness as much as 25.3 feet; entire sequence seldom exposed at one place. Overlies Hughes Creek shale member; underlies Johnson shale. Age is Early Permian (Wolfcampian).

Source: Publication; US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 2224-2225).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Long Creek limestone member
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Chautauqua platform
Publication:

West, A.E., 1960, Geology of northeastern Lincoln County, Oklahoma: Shale Shaker, v. 11, no. 3, p. 2-12.


Summary:

Pg. 4-6. Long Creek limestone member of Konawa formation. Described in Lincoln County, northern Oklahoma, where it is classified as member of Konawa formation. Thickness 55 to 60 feet. Overlies Americus(?) limestone member; underlies Red Eagle limestone member. [Age is Early Permian (Wolfcampian).]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 2224-2225).


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