Usage:
Little Pawnee Shale Member of Cass Limestone of Douglas Group (IA,NE)
Little Pawnee Shale Member of Cass Formation of Douglas Group (MO)
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Little Pawnee Creek Valley, in SE/4 sec. 9, T. 12 N., R. 10 E., Saunders Co., southeastern NE (Condra, 1949).
Reference section: in cutbank on Pigeon Creek at Pigeon Hill Wildlife area, 1,200 ft south of abandoned RR bed, and 800 ft east of bridge on I-29, in SW/4 NW/4 NW/4 sec. 24, T. 56 N., R. 35 W., 3 mi south of intersection of I-29 and I-229, and 8 mi southeast of St. Joseph City Hall, St. Joseph South 7.5-min quadrangle, Buchanan Co., MO (Gentile and Thompson, 2004).
AAPG geologic province:
Forest City basin
Nemaha anticline
Salina basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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