Usage:
Nolans Limestone of Chase Group (KS*,NE*)
[?] Nolans Limestone of Sumner Group (KS)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in KS* and NE*: Herington Member, Krider Member, Paddock Shale Member.
Geologic age:
early Permian (Leonardian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Nolans, a railway siding near Emmons, Washington Co., northwestern KS (Jewett, 1941; Moore and others, 1951).
AAPG geologic province:
Salina basin*
Nemaha anticline*
Anadarko 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 ([ ]).