Usage:
Hooser Shale Member of Bader Limestone of Council Grove Group (KS*,NE*)
Geologic age:
early Permian (Wolfcampian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: exposures in highway cut and in ravine just east of Hooser, southeastern Cowley Co., KS. Named from town of Hooser, Cowley Co., KS (Condra and Upp, 1931).
AAPG geologic province:
Nemaha anticline*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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