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Geologic Unit: Dashner

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Dashner Member of Topeka Limestone of Shawnee Group (KS) considered invalid. Replaced with †Wolf River Limestone Member [rocks later included in Hartford Limestone Member]. See Hartford.)


Geologic age:

Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)


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

Origin of name not stated (Moore, 1935, 1936).
Type locality: Dashner farm, southeast of Haynies Station (now Sargeants siding) in IA (R.C. Moore, pers. commun., n.d.).


AAPG geologic province:

Forest City 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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