Usage:
Higginsville Limestone Member of Fort Scott Limestone of Marmaton Group (KS,OK)
Higginsville Limestone Member of Stephens Forest Formation of Marmaton Group (IA)
Higginsville Limestone of /Fort Scott subgroup [informal] of Marmaton Group (MO)
["Subgroup" not recognized as a formal stratigraphic rank term (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). Fort Scott subgroup considered informal and should not be capitalized.]
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not stated. Well exposed east of Higginsville, Lafayette Co., western MO (Cline, 1941; see also Jewett, 1941).
Principal reference section (= type section of Myrick Station Limestone Member of Pawnee Formation): in ravine in south bluff of Missouri River Valley, 0.75 mi west of Lexington in vicinity of former location of Myrick Station, in NE/4 NW/4 NE/4 sec. 5, T. 50 N., R. 27 W., Lexington West 7.5-min quadrangle, Lafayette Co., western MO (Gentile and Thompson, 2004).
AAPG geologic province:
Forest City basin
Cherokee basin
Iowa shelf
Chautauqua platform
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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