Usage:
Eminence Dolomite (AR*?,MO*,OK*?, and IL*-subsurface)
Eminence Dolomite of Arbuckle Group (CO*,OK*?, and KS*-subsurface)
Eminence Formation (IL*-subsurface)
Eminence Dolomite of Knox Group (IL*-notably in southern part)
Eminence Formation of Knox Group (IL*-subsurface)
Subunits:
Momence Sandstone Member (IL).
Geologic age:
Cambrian, Late*
Croixan*
Ordovician, Early*
Canadian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures at Eminence, Shannon Co., southeastern MO (Ulrich, 1911).
AAPG geologic province:
Ozark uplift*
Illinois basin*
Upper Mississippi embayment*
Chautauqua platform*
Cherokee basin*
Forest City basin*
Anadarko basin*
Central Kansas uplift*
Sedgwick basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).