- Usage in publication:
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- Sallyards limestone member
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Cherokee basin
- Nemaha anticline
- Forest City basin
- Salina basin
- Chautauqua platform
Summary:
Sallyards limestone member of Grenola formation. The newly established Grenola formation is divided into following members (descending): Neva limestone, Salem Point shale, Burr limestone, Legion shale, and Sallyards limestone. The Sallyards member is fossiliferous massive earthy limestone at Roca, Nebraska; in southern Nebraska and northern Kansas it is shaly, fossiliferous, and limy; in Oklahoma it is impure limestone grading into sandstone. Its numerous pelecypods at most points indicate that it is a near-shore marine deposit. Where there is a comprehensive fauna (as at Sallyards, Grenola, and Hooser, Kansas) it is more typically marine. Thickness 6 inches to 3.5 feet. It rests on Roca shale. Report includes measured sections.
Type locality: south bank of ravine 1 mi northeast of Sallyards, Greenwood Co., KS. Named from town of Sallyards.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1894); supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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