Usage:
Chouteau Limestone (IL*,IA,KS*,MO*)
Chouteau Limestone of Knobs Group (IL-notably southeastern part)
Chouteau Limestone of Mammoth Cave Group (IL-notably southwestern part)
Chouteau Group (MO,NE)
Subunits:
GROUP STATUS: Compton Formation, Sedalia Formation, Northview Formation.
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian (Tournaisian; Kinderhookian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: short valley about 0.25 mi north of Chouteau Springs, in center sec. 16, T. 48 N., R. 17 W., Cooper Co., central MO (Swallow, 1855; Moore, 1928).
Reference sections: (1) just below Clarence Cannon Dam on either side of Salt River valley, in SE/4 sec. 22 and NE/4 sec. 27, T. 55 N., R. 7 W., Ralls Co., Joanna 7.5-min quadrangle, and (2) at Buzzard Cave, in NE/4 SW/4 NW/4 sec. 5, T. 53 N., Pike Co., both in northeastern MO (Thompson, 1986).
AAPG geologic province:
Chadron arch
Denver basin
Forest City basin*
Illinois basin*
Iowa shelf
Lincoln anticline
Nemaha anticline
Ozark uplift*
Salina 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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