Usage:
Lansing Group (IA*,KS*,MO*,NE*,OK, and CO*-subsurface)
Subunits:
(ascending): Plattsburg Limestone (IA,KS*,MO*,NE*) or Plattsburg Formation (MO), Vilas Shale (IA,KS*,MO*,NE*) or Vilas Formation (KS,MO), Stanton Limestone (IA*,KS*,MO*,NE*) or Stanton Formation (KS).
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Lansing, Leavenworth Co., KS (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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