- Usage in publication:
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- Stotler limestone*
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Limestone
- Shale
- Coal
- Sandstone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Nemaha anticline
- Cherokee basin
- Forest City basin
Summary:
Pg. 2274 (fig. 1), 2275. Stotler limestone of Wabaunsee group. Defined to include strata underlying Root shale (new) and overlying Pillsbury shale (new). Thickness ranges from 5 to 35 feet; average 14 feet. Includes (ascending) Dover limestone, Dry shale, and Grandhaven limestone members. Age is Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian).
Type section: in spillway and along south side of pond in SE/4 sec. 18, T. 16 S., R. 12 E., Lyon Co., about 2 mi west of Miller, east-central KS. Named from old Stotler PO which was in SW/4 sec. 10, T. 16 S., R. 13 E., east-central KS.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 3744).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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