- Usage in publication:
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- Wauneta 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
Summary:
Wauneta Limestone Member of Howard Limestone of Wabaunsee Group. Previously included in upper part of Aarde Shale. Consists of light-gray, brownish weathering, dense, fossiliferous limestone containing a few fusulinids and locally algal material. Thickness about 1 foot. Overlies Aarde Shale (restricted) which includes Nodaway Coal Bed; underlies [Shanghai Creek] Shale Member (new); both of Howard Limestone. Occurs in Greenwood, Elk, and Chautauqua Counties, in southern part of Kansas. Age is Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian).
Type section: in roadcut along 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. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from town of Wauneta, Chautauqua Co., KS.
Source: Kansas lexicon (Kansas Geol. Survey Bull., no. 231, p. 258); GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
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