Usage:
Pfeifer Shale Member of Greenhorn Limestone (KS*)
Subunits:
Fencepost limestone bed (informal) (KS).
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from exposures near Pfeifer, Ellis Co., KS. Section measured in roadcut in SE/4 sec. 21, T. 15 S., R. 19 W., Ellis Co., KS (Bass, 1926).
AAPG geologic province:
Central Kansas uplift*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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