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Geologic Unit: Sac Fox

Usage:

/Sacfox subgroup [informal] of Wabaunsee Group (KS)

["Subgroup" not recognized as a formal stratigraphic rank term (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). Sacfox subgroup considered informal and should not be capitalized.]


Subunits:

Severy Shale, Howard Limestone, and Scranton Shale.


Geologic age:

Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)


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

In Missouri River blufflands, between mouth of the Big Nemaha and Iowa Point, KS (Condra, 1935).


AAPG geologic province:

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 ( ).

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