Usage:
Bennett Shale Member of Red Eagle Limestone of Council Grove Group (KS*,NE*)
Bennett Shale Member of Red Eagle Formation (NE)
Geologic age:
earliest Permian (earliest Wolfcampian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: along the Little Nemaha and its branches south of Bennett, Lancaster Co., southeastern NE [see Wilmarth, 1938].
AAPG geologic province:
Nemaha anticline*
Salina basin*
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 ([ ]).