Usage:
Big Springs Member of Lecompton Limestone of Shawnee Group (IA*,KS*,NE*)
Big Springs Limestone Member of Lecompton Formation of Shawnee Group (MO)
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: north of town of Big Springs, Douglas Co., KS. Named from Big Springs (Condra, 1927, 1937).
Type locality: near Big Springs in roadcut near center of south line of sec. 36, T. 11 S., R. 17 E., about 4.5 mi west of Lecompton (Moore, 1936, p. 175; Condra, 1949; Hershey and others, 1960; see also MO Geol. Survey lexicon, Thompson, 2001).
AAPG geologic province:
Forest City basin*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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