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Geologic Unit: Ost

Usage:

Ost Limestone Member of Tecumseh Shale of Shawnee Group (NE)


Geologic age:

Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

On the Ost Farm, on South Fork Weepingwater Creek, about 3.5 mi east of Avoca, Cass Co., NE (Condra, 1930).


AAPG geologic province:

Nemaha anticline


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