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Geologic Unit: Crusher Hill

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Crusher Hill alternating shales and limestones [informal] in Council Grove Group (KS) abandoned. Rocks reallocated to several formations of Council Grove Group. See Council Grove.)


Geologic age:

early Permian (Wolfcampian)*


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

Origin of name not stated by author (Wooster, 1905).


AAPG geologic province:

Forest City basin
Nemaha anticline


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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