Usage:
Drum Limestone of Kansas City Group (IA*,KS*,MO*,NE*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Cement City Limestone Member (NE?,MO*), Corbin City Member (KS), Corbin City Limestone Member (IA), Dewey Member (KS), P.W.A. Quarry Member (IA,NE), Richfield Quarry Shale Member (IA,NE).
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Drum Creek, Montgomery Co., southeastern KS (Adams, 1903).
Type locality: along highway east of Independence, Kansas, and at cement plant in northwestern part sec. 4, T. 33 S., R. 16 E. (Condra, 1949).
AAPG geologic province:
Cherokee basin*
Iowa shelf*
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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