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  • Usage in publication:
    • Taylor Branch limestone member
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Forest City basin
    • Nemaha anticline
Publication:

Condra, G.E., 1935, Geologic cross-section, Forest City, Missouri to south of Du Bois, Nebraska: Nebraska Geological Survey Paper, no. 8, 23 p., Issued late in 1935. See also USGS unpub. corr. charts of Pennsylvanian and Permian rocks of KS and NE, compiled by M.G. Wilmarth, Secretary of Committee on Geologic Names, Oct. 1936


Summary:

Pg. 5, 10. Taylor Branch limestone of Burlingame limestone formation of Wabaunsee group. Bluish gray, massive limestone, weathering brownish, 2 to 4.5 feet thick. Basal member of Burlingame. Is lowest heavy limestone at top of opening in clay pit south of Taylor Branch, south of Table Rock, Nebraska. Traced through Kansas to Oklahoma. Age is Late Pennsylvanian (Virgil). [See also under South Fork.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 2121, South Fork entry p. 2031); GNC KS-NE Pennsylvanian Corr. Chart, sheet 2, Oct. 1936.


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