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  • Usage in publication:
    • Nowata shale
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
    • Sandstone
    • Coal
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Chautauqua platform
Publication:

Ohern, D.W., 1910, The stratigraphy of the older Pennsylvanian rocks of northeastern Oklahoma: Oklahoma State University, Research Bulletin, no. 4, 40 p.


Summary:

Pg. 28. Nowata shale. Bluish or greenish shales with a few sandstones and at least one bed of coal. Thickness 50 to 600 feet. Top formation of Tulsa group. Overlies Altamont limestone member of Oologah limestone and underlies Lenapah limestone. Age is Pennsylvanian.
Named from Nowata, Nowata Co., northeastern OK.
[Nowata shale. Adopted by the USGS. Recognized in northeastern Oklahoma and southern Kansas.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1519).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Nowata shale*
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Chautauqua platform
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:

Nowata shale. In Oklahoma is treated by U.S. Geological Survey as a distinct formation, and in Kansas as a member of Parsons formation. But R.C. Moore has recently (Kansas Geol. Survey Bull., no. 22, 1936) discarded Parsons formation and treats Nowata shale as a formation in his Marmaton group. These changes have not been considered by U.S. Geological Survey for its publications.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1519).


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

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

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