Usage:
Kenosha Shale Member of Tecumseh Shale of Shawnee Group (NE)
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
In Missouri River bluff near Kenosha landing at mouth of second small valley south of King Hill, Case Co., southeastern NE. Named from Kenosha landing (Condra, 1930).
AAPG geologic province:
Nemaha anticline
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