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Geologic Unit: Osage
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Osage limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Ozark uplift
Publication:

Winslow, Arthur, 1894, Lead and zinc deposits: Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines Report, v. 6-7, 763 p.


Summary:

Pg. 331, 366, 375. Osage limestone. Magnesium limestones and chert, 270 feet thick, underlying Moreau [Roubidoux] sandstone and overlying Cole Camp sandstone. [Age is Early Ordovician (Beekmantown).]
[Named from Osage Bluff, Cole Co., central MO.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1565).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Osage limestone†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Ozark uplift
Publication:

Wilmarth, M.G., 1936, [Selected Geologic Names Committee remarks (ca. 1936) on Cambrian and Ordovician rocks of the U.S.], 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:

†Osage limestone abandoned. Corresponds to all of Gasconade dolomite restricted of present [ca. 1936] usage and all of Van Buren formation above Gunter sandstone member.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1565).


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

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

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

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