Usage:
No current usage.
(†Atchison Shale (IA,MO,NE) abandoned. In MO, equivalent units span from Calhoun Shale (upper Shawnee Group) to Stotler Formation (upper Wabaunsee Group). See Shawnee and Wabaunsee.)
Geologic age:
Pennsylvanian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Atchison Co., MO (Keyes, 1899).
AAPG geologic province:
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.
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