Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Luta Limestone (KS) reallocated to Cresswell Member of Winfield Limestone of Chase Group. See Cresswell.)
Geologic age:
early Permian (Wolfcampian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: 5 mi northeast of Marion, KS, on Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific RR. Named from Luta Brook, a tributary of Antelope Creek, just north of Marion, Marion Co., KS (Beede, 1909).
AAPG geologic province:
Nemaha anticline
Sedgwick basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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