Geologic Unit: Council Grove

Usage:

Council Grove Group (KS*,NE*,OK*, and CO*-subsurface)

Subunits:

(alphabetical): Bader Formation (KS,NE,OK) or Bader Limestone (KS*,NE,OK*), Beattie Limestone (KS*,NE*), Blue Rapids Shale (KS*,NE*,OK), Cottonwood Limestone (KS*,NE,OK*), Crouse Limestone (KS*,NE,OK*), Easly Creek Shale (KS*,NE*), Eiss Limestone (KS,NE), Eskridge Shale (KS*,NE,OK*), Foraker Limestone (KS*,NE,OK*), Funston Limestone (KS*,NE,OK*), Grenola Limestone (KS*,NE,OK*), Johnson Shale (KS*,NE*,OK), Neva Limestone (KS*,NE,OK*), Red Eagle Limestone (KS*,NE*,OK*), Roca Shale (KS*,NE*,OK*), Speiser Shale (KS*,NE*,OK), Stearns Shale (KS*,NE*).

Geologic age:

Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) to early Permian (Wolfcampian)*

Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Named from town of Council Grove, Morris Co., KS (Prosser, 1902).

AAPG geologic province:

Anadarko basin*
Chautauqua platform*
Denver basin*
Forest City basin*
Las Animas arch*
Nemaha anticline*
Salina basin*
Sedgwick basin*