Usage:
Avoca Limestone Member of Lecompton Formation of Shawnee Group (IA*,MO*,NE*)
Avoca Limestone Member of Lecompton Limestone of Shawnee Group (KS*)
Avoca Limestone Bed of Lecompton Limestone Member of Pawhuska Formation of Ada Group (OK)
Avoca Limestone Bed of Lecompton Limestone Member of Pawhuska Formation of Shawnee Group (OK*)
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: on South Branch Weeping Water Creek, about 3 mi east of Avoca, Otoe Co., southeastern NE (Condra, 1927; 1949).
AAPG geologic province:
Nemaha anticline*
Forest City basin*
Chautauqua platform*
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 ( ).
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