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Geologic Unit: Annelly

Usage:

Annelly Gypsum Member of Wellington Formation of Sumner Group (KS-local)


Geologic age:

early Permian (Leonardian)


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

Type locality: high cliff on west branch of Whitewater River, 0.25 mi south of Annelly, in sec. 15 [10], T. 24 S., R. 2 E., Harvey Co., southeastern KS. (Ver Wiebe, 1937).
[See section measured by W.A. Ver Wiebe, 1936. Available online from the Kansas Geological Survey, "Kansas by County" Data Explorer; measured sections http://www.kgs.ku.edu/General/Geology/Measured/index.html (select Harvey Co.; T. 24 S., R. 2 E; section 10).]


AAPG geologic province:

Sedgwick basin


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