Usage:
No current usage.
(†Caneyville Limestone of Wabaunsee Group (KS,NE,OK) replaced with Plumb Shale Member of Wood Siding Formation of /Richardson subgroup [informal] of Wabaunsee Group. See Plumb Shale.)
["Subgroup" not recognized as a formal stratigraphic rank term (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). Richardson subgroup considered informal and should not be capitalized.]
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
In sec. 11, T. 32 S., R. 8 E., Caneyville Twp., Chautauqua Co., KS. Named from Caneyville Twp., Chautauqua, Co., southeastern KS (Moore, 1936).
AAPG geologic province:
Cherokee basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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