Usage:
No current usage?
(†Marion Flint of Chase Group (KS) considered abandoned? Uncertain if used by the KS Geol. Survey. Abandoned by the USGS, is considered same as Stovall Member of Winfield Limestone. See Stovall.)
Geologic age:
early Permian (Wolfcampian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from good exposures near Marion City, Marion Co., central KS (Prosser, 1895, p. 772).
AAPG geologic province:
Nemaha anticline
Sedgwick basin
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 ([ ]).