Usage:
No current usage.
(†Forbes Limestone (IA,MO,NE) replaced with Deer Creek Limestone. See Deer Creek.)
Geologic age:
Pennsylvanian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Described from good exposures in top bluffs of Missouri and Nodaway Rivers, north of the town of Forbes, Holt Co., MO (Keyes, 1898).
AAPG geologic province:
Forest City basin
Nemaha anticline
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