- Usage in publication:
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- Reager ash bed
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Volcanic ash
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Central Kansas uplift
Summary:
Pg. 9-13, 27. Reager ash bed of Ash Hollow member of Ogallala formation. Name applied to volcanic ash bed. Approximately 10 feet thick. Lies near middle of member and stratigraphically above Calvert ash bed (new) and stratigraphically below an unnamed ash bed. Age is Pliocene.
Type locality: in NW/4 NE/4 sec. 35, T. 2 S., R. 25 W., Norton Co., northwestern KS. Named from exposures 1 mi north of stop on Burlington Railroad in west-central part of county.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 3212).
- Usage in publication:
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- Reager ash bed
- Modifications:
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- Revised
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Central Kansas uplift
Summary:
Pg. 244 (fig. 1), 254. Reager ash bed of Ash Hollow member of Ogallala formation. Listed in stratigraphic sequence as overlapping Dellvale ash bed (new) and underlying Reamsville ash bed (new). Present in northwestern Kansas. Age is Pliocene.
[GNC remark (ca. 2010): Ash Hollow Member later discarded by the Kansas Geol. Survey. See Ludvigson and others, 2009, Kansas Geol. Survey Bull., no. 256, pt. 2.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 3212).
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