Usage:
Lecompton Formation of Shawnee Group (IA*,MO*,NE*)
Lecompton Limestone of Shawnee Group (KS*)
Lecompton Limestone Member of Pawhuska Formation of Shawnee Group (OK*)
Lecompton Limestone Member of Pawhuska Formation of Ada Group (OK)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Avoca Limestone Member (IA*,KS*,MO*,NE*), Beil Member (IA,KS*,NE*) or Beil Limestone Member (MO,OK), Big Springs Member (IA,KS*,NE) or Big Springs Limestone Member (MO), Doniphan Shale Member (IA,KS*,MO,NE), King Hill Shale Member (IA,KS*,MO,NE*), Queen Hill Shale Member (IA,KS*,MO,NE*), Spring Branch Member (IA,KS*,NE) or Spring Branch Limestone Member (MO).
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not synopsized to date.
AAPG geologic province:
Forest City basin*
Nemaha anticline*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).