Usage:
Cement City Limestone Member of Dewey Formation of Kansas City Group (IA)
Cement City Member of Dewey Limestone of Kansas City Group (NE*?)
Cement City Limestone Member of Drum Limestone of Kansas City Group (NE*?,MO*)
Cement City Limestone Member of Chanute Shale (KS*,NE?)
Cement City Limestone Member of Dewey Formation of /Linn subgroup [informal] of Kansas City Group (MO)
["Subgroup" not recognized as a formal stratigraphic rank term (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). Linn subgroup considered informal and should not be capitalized.]
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
In cement plant quarry at Cement City [along Missouri River, northeast of Kansas City, Liberty 7.5-min quadrangle], Jackson Co., northwestern MO (Condra, 1949).
Named from Cement City (Hinds and Greene, 1915).
Reference section: in west-facing embankment on Kansas City Southern RR, 200 ft south of abandoned crossing of the tracks on a now-closed east-west gravel road, 3 mi north of Cleveland, in NW/4 NW/4 SW/4 sec. 16, T. 45 N., R. 33 W., West Line 7.5-min quadrangle, Cass Co., MO (Gentile and Thompson, 2004).
AAPG geologic province:
Forest City basin*
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 ([ ]).