Usage:
No current usage.
(†Fort Scott marble series [informal] (KS) abandoned.)
[When referring to the Fort Scott marble series of Swallow (1866), please use informally. The practice of employing "Series" for lithostratigraphic or lithodemic nomenclature is now regarded as improper (ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). The term "Series" is applied formally only to chronostratigraphic units.]
Geologic age:
Pennsylvanian, Middle
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Type area: in Bourbon Co., eastern KS.] Probably named from exposures at Fort Scott, Bourbon Co., eastern KS (Swallow, 1866).
AAPG geologic province:
Cherokee 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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