Usage:
Kansas City Group (IA*,KS*,MO*,NE*,OK, and CO*-subsurface)
[?] Kansas City Formation of Skiatook Group (TX)
[?] Kansas City Formation (CO)
Subunits:
GROUP STATUS (alphabetical): Bethany Falls Limestone (IA*,KS,NE), Bonner Springs Shale (IA*,KS*,MO*,NE*) or Bonner Springs Formation (IA*,MO), /Bronson "subgroup" (KS,MO), Chanute Shale (IA*,KS*,MO*,NE*) or Chanute Formation (MO), Cherryvale Formation (IA*,MO*,NE*) or Cherryvale Shale (KS*,MO*), Coffeyville Formation (KS*), Dennis Limestone (IA*,KS*,MO*,NE*) or Dennis Formation (IA,KS,MO), Drum Limestone (IA*,KS*,MO*,NE*) or Drum Formation (MO), Galesburg Shale (IA*,KS*,MO*,NE*) or Galesburg Formation (MO), Hertha Limestone (IA*,KS*,MO*,NE*) or Hertha Formation (MO), Iola Limestone (IA*,KS*,MO*,NE*), Ladore Formation (MO) or Ladore Shale (IA*,KS*,MO*,NE*), Lane Formation (MO) or Lane Shale (IA*,KS*,MO*,NE*), /Linn "subgroup" (KS,MO), Quivira Formation (IA,KS,MO), Swope Formation (MO) or Swope Limestone (IA*,KS*,MO*,NE*), Westerville Limestone (IA,KS,NE), Winterset Limestone (KS*), Wyandotte Limestone (IA*,KS*,NE*) or Wyandotte Formation (MO), /Zarah "subgroup" (KS,MO).
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures at Kansas City, MO (Hinds, 1912).
AAPG geologic province:
Forest City basin*
Anadarko 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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