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Geologic Unit: Mound Valley
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Mound Valley limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cherokee basin
Publication:

Adams, G.I., 1896, A geologic section from Galena to Wellington [Kansas], Chapter I, IN Haworth, Erasmus, and others, [Stratigraphy of the Carboniferous of Kansas and allied subjects]: Kansas Geological Survey [Report], v. 1, p. 16-30.


Summary:

Pg. 23. Mound Valley limestone. Heavy limestone, thin to 15 feet thick, capping row of hills, 120 feet high, northwest of Mound Valley [Labette County, eastern Kansas] and passing under surface at Cherryvale [Montgomery County, eastern Kansas]. Age is Pennsylvanian.

Source: US geologic names lexicons (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1429; USGS Bull. 1200, p. 2618).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Mound Valley limestone†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
Publication:

Wilmarth, M.G., 1936, [Selected Geologic Names Committee remarks (ca. 1935-1938) 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.


Summary:

Discarded by the USGS many years ago, for Bethany Falls limestone, the older name. R.C. Moore, 1936 (Kans. Geol. Surv. Bull. 22, p. 86), discussed Adams' miscorrelatlons and gave synopses of Mound Valley limestone as used by other writers. On p. 88 he stated: Bethany Falls limestone was called †Mound Valley limestone by early Kansas Geol. Survey, but Bethany Falls has priority.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1429).


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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