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  • Usage in publication:
    • Luta
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
Publication:

Beede, J.W., 1909, Formations of the Marion stage of the Kansas Permian: Kansas Academy of Sciences Transactions, v. 22, p. 248-256., 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; Jour. Geol., v. 17, 1909


Summary:

Pg. 251. Luta limestone. More or less cellular, soft gray limestone, 10 to 30 feet thick, with siliceous and other geodes scattered through it and with layers of more or less banded chert concretions. Basal member of Marion stage. Overlain by Enterprise shales and underlain by Winfield limestone.
[See also 1909, Jour. Geol., v. 17, p. 710-729.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1238-1239).


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