Usage:
Shale Hill Formation of Pleasanton Group (IA,KS?,MO)
Uncertain if Shale Hill Fm. adopted by KS Strat. Names Com.
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Blue Mound Shale Member (IA?,MO), Critzer Limestone Member (KS?,MO), Exline Limestone Member (KS?,MO), Guthrie Mountain Shale Member (KS?,MO), Knobtown Limestone Member (KS?,MO), Mantey Shale Member (KS?,MO), Weldon River Sandstone Member (IA,MO).
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: shale pit of Midland Brick and Tile Company on Shale Hill, near Utica, in NE/4 SE/4 sec. 18, T. 57 N., R. 24 W., southwestern Livingston Co., MO. Named from Shale Hill (Howe, 1982; Gentile and Thompson, 2004).
AAPG geologic province:
Forest City basin
Lincoln anticline
Iowa shelf
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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