Usage:
Cherryvale Shale of Kansas City Group (KS*)
Cherryvale Formation of Kansas City Group (IA*,MO*,NE*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Block Limestone Member (IA*,KS*,MO,NE*), Fontana Member (KS*,MO), Fontana Shale Member (IA*,MO,NE*), Quivira Member (KS*), Quivira Shale Member (IA*,MO*,NE*), Wea Member (KS*), Wea Shale Member (IA*,MO,NE*), Westerville Limestone Member (IA*,KS*,MO*,NE*).
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in vicinity of Cherryvale, Montgomery Co., eastern KS (Haworth, 1898).
AAPG geologic province:
Cherokee basin*
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 ( ).
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