Usage:
Five Point Limestone Member of Janesville Shale of Admire Group (KS*,NE*,OK*)
Five Point Limestone Member of Admire Formation of Vanoss Group (OK)
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: Five Point Creek, near Five Point School, in sec. 25, T. 1 N., R. 15 E., Richardson Co., NE, 2 mi south and 4.5 mi west of Falls City [see Wilmarth, 1938].
Named from exposures in Five Point Valley, Richardson Co., NE (Condra, 1935).
AAPG geologic province:
Chautauqua platform*
Cherokee basin*
Forest City basin*
Nemaha anticline*
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 ([ ]).