Usage:
Chanute Shale of Kansas City Group (IA*,KS*,MO*,NE*)
Chanute Formation of Ochelata Group (OK*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Belton Sand [Lens] (MO), Cement City Limestone Member (IA,KS*,NE), Cottage Grove Sandstone Member (KS*,OK), Liberty Memorial Member (MO), Muncie Creek Member (IA), Noxie Member (OK) or Noxie Sandstone Member (KS) or Noxie Sandstone Lentil (KS), Union Station Member (MO).
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from development in vicinity of Chanute, Neosho Co., southeastern KS (Haworth and Kirk, 1894).
AAPG geologic province:
Cherokee basin*
Chautauqua platform*
Nemaha anticline*
Forest City basin*
Iowa shelf*
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 ([ ]).