Usage:
Oaks Shale Bed of Hamlin Shale Member of Janesville Shale of Admire Group (KS*,NE*)
Oaks Shale Member of Admire Formation of Vanoss Group (OK)
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: Oaks farm, southwest of Salem, in NE/4 sec. 9, T. 1 N., R. 15 E., Richardson Co., southeastern NE [see Wilmarth, 1938].
AAPG geologic province:
Chautauqua platform
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 ([ ]).