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  • Usage in publication:
    • Stoner limestone bed
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Nemaha anticline
Publication:

Condra, G.E., 1930, Correlation of the Pennsylvanian beds in the Platte and Jones Point sections of Nebraska: Nebraska Geological Survey Bulletin, 2nd series, no. 3, 57 p., See also "Modern classifications of the Pennsylvanian rocks of eastern Kansas and southeastern Nebraska," compiled by M.G. Wilmarth, Secretary of Committee on Geologic Names, USGS unpub. corr. chart, Oct. 1936, sheet 1


Summary:

Pg. 11, 26, 27, 31, 33, 34, 36, 37. Louisville limestone is preoccupied hence Stoner limestone is proposed for this unit to include also Kiewitz shale and so-called Du Bois limestone. Consists of bluish, light gray to buff, dense, slabby, massive or bedded, fossiliferous, somewhat argillaceous limestone, and greenish bluish gray, argillaceous, calcareous, fossiliferous shale. Thickness 14 to 16 feet 8 inches. Underlies Rock Lake shale and overlies Eudora shale. Described from measured sections along Platte River, Cass Co., southeastern Nebraska. Has been traced into Missouri and Kansas. Age is Pennsylvanian.
Type locality: on Stoner farm, located northwest of South Bend, Cass Co., southeastern NE.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 2069); GNC KS-NE Pennsylvanian Corr. Chart, sheet 1, Oct. 1936; supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


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