[Shanghai Creek] Shale Member. Name proposed for member (1 of 7) of Howard Limestone of Wabaunsee Group. Occurs in southern part of Kansas. Lower part [formerly part of Aarde Shale Member] consists of black, fissile shale, with local accumulations of phosphate nodules. Upper part consists of light-gray to tan fossiliferous (pelecypods and brachiopods) shale and marks beginning of the regressive phase of the cyclothem. Total thickness ranges from 1 to 2 feet thick. Overlies Wauneta Limestone Member (new) and underlies Church Limestone Member, both of Howard Limestone. Age is Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian). Report includes measured sections. [Author uses both Shangai [sic] Creek and Shangai [sic] in this report. True spelling and name is Shanghai Creek (corrected in Kansas Acad. Sci. Trans., v. 93, p. 60, 1990).]
Type section: roadcut in U.S. Highway 166 about 7.5 mi east of Cedar Vale and 10 mi west of Sedan, in NW/4 sec. 7, T. 34 S., R. 10 E., Chautauqua Co., KS, in the Cherokee basin. Derivation of name not stated, but probably named from Shanghai Creek, about 2 mi west of type section.

Source: Kansas lexicon (Kansas Geol. Survey Bull., no. 231, p. 218); GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).

Spelling of name revised from Shangai Creek (as named by Merriam (1989)) to Shanghai Creek because original name did not conform to geographic place name. Shanghai Creek overlies Wauneta Limestone Member of Howard Formation and below Church Limestone Member of Howard.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).