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Geologic Unit: Reserve

Usage:

Reserve Shale Member of Falls City Limestone of Admire Group (NE)


Geologic age:

Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)


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

Type locality: in upland near State line, northwest of Reserve, [Brown Co.], northeastern KS (Condra, 1935).


AAPG geologic province:

Forest City basin
Nemaha anticline


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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