Usage:
Howe Member of Red Eagle Limestone of Council Grove Group (KS*,NE*)
Howe Limestone Member of Red Eagle Limestone of Council Grove Group (KS)
Geologic age:
early Permian (Wolfcampian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures south of Howe, Nemaha Co., NE (Condra, 1927).
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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