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Geologic Unit: Plattsmouth

Usage:

Plattsmouth Member of Oread Limestone (IA*,KS*,MO*,NE*,OK*)
Plattsmouth Limestone Member of Oread Formation (MO)
[?] Plattsmouth Limestone of Vamoosa Group (OK)


Geologic age:

Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)*


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

In Missouri River bluffs in vicinity of Plattsmouth, Cass Co., NE (Keyes, 1898; Moore, 1936).
Named from exposures near Plattsmouth, Cass Co., NE (Keyes, 1898).


AAPG geologic province:

Nemaha anticline*
Forest City 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 ([ ]).