Usage:
Admire Group (KS*,NE*,OK*, and CO*-subsurface)
Admire Formation of Vanoss Group (OK)
Subunits:
GROUP STATUS (alphabetical) --all in KS*,NE*,OK*: Falls City Limestone, Janesville Shale, Onaga Shale.
FORMATION STATUS (alphabetical) --all in OK: Five Point Limestone Member, Houchen Creek Limestone Member, Oaks Shale Member, Stine Shale Member.
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from Admire, Lyon Co., KS (Adams, 1903).
AAPG geologic province:
Anadarko basin*
Chautauqua platform*
Cherokee basin*
Denver basin*
Forest City basin*
Las Animas arch*
Nemaha anticline*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).