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  • Usage in publication:
    • Olpe shales*
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Forest City basin
Publication:

Adams, G.I., 1903, Stratigraphy of the region, IN Adams, G.I, Girty, G.H., and White, David, Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Upper Carboniferous rocks of the Kansas section: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 211, p. 15-72.


Summary:

Pg. 51-52. Olpe shales. Here proposed for the fossiliferous shales, 50 to 60 feet thick, overlying Barclay limestone (= Burlingame limestone, preoccupied), and underlying Emporia limestone. Age is Pennsylvanian. Report includes faunal list.
Named from exposures at Olpe, Lyon Co., eastern KS.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1545-1546).


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