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Geologic Unit: Americus

Usage:

Americus Limestone Member of Foraker Limestone of Council Grove Group (KS*,NE*,OK*)
Americus Limestone Member of Foraker Limestone of Vanoss Group (OK)


Geologic age:

Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Named from exposures near village of Americus, Lyon Co., eastern KS, where it is quarried (Kirk, 1896; see also Smith, 1902).


AAPG geologic province:

Chautauqua platform*
Cherokee basin*
Forest City basin*
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 ([ ]).