Usage:
Burlington Limestone (IL*,IA*,KS*,KY*,MO*,NE, and CO*-subsurface)
Burlington Formation of Augusta Group (IA)
Also called /Burlington-Keokuk Limestone of Mammoth Cave Group (IL-notably southwestern part)
[The use of a hyphen between undifferentiated formations is not considered proper notation (CSN, 1933).]
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Cedar Fork Member (IA) or Cedar Fork Limestone Member (IL), Dolbee Creek Member (IA), Haight Creek Member (IA,IL).
Geologic age:
Early to Middle Mississippian (Tournaisian to Visean; Osagean)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures at Burlington, Des Moines Co., southeastern IA (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
Reference section: roadcut in U.S. Highway 65 immediately south of Springfield, Greene Co., beginning at south edge of bridge over Lake Springfield and continuing approx 0.5 mi to the south, in W/2 E/2 sec. 21, T. 28 N., R. 21 W., Ozark 7.5-min quadrangle, southwestern MO (Thompson and Fellows, 1970, section Y).
AAPG geologic province:
Anadarko basin*
Illinois basin*
Iowa shelf*
Lincoln anticline
Ozark uplift*
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 ([ ]).