Usage:
Short Creek Oolite Member of Boone Formation (AR,KS*,MO*,OK*)
Short Creek Oolite Member of Keokuk Limestone (MO)
Geologic age:
Mississippian, Late*
Meramecian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named (p. 5) from exposures along Short Creek, a stream flowing westward between Galena and Empire in Cherokee Co., KS. The type locality is the north bluff of the creek half a mile south of west of the Empire depot and a hundred yards north of the crossing of the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas and Frisco railways. Thompson (1986, Missouri Dept. Nat. Res., Div. Geol. and Land Survey, Rpt. Inv. 70, pt. 4, p. 95) added "This is just north of the center of the line separating secs. 14 and 15, T. 34 S., R. 25 E...Baxter Springs 7.5-min quadrangle." [See also MO Geol. Survey lexicon (Thompson, 2001).]
AAPG geologic province:
Chautauqua platform*
Cherokee basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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