Kasota sandstone beds [informal] of Oneota Dolomite of Prairie du Chien Group (MN-local)
Considered informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Early Ordovician (Ibexian; Tremadocian)
Named from characteristic exposure in bluff of Minnesota River at Kasota, Le Sueur Co., southeastern MN (Powell, 1935).
Sioux uplift
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