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Geologic Unit: South Fork

Usage:

South Fork Limestone Member of Burlingame Formation of Wabaunsee Group (NE)


Geologic age:

Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)


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

Lies high in hill 0.75 mi southwest of Du Bois [Pawnee Co., southeastern NE], at west side of South Fork Valley (Condra, 1935).


AAPG geologic province:

Nemaha anticline
Forest City basin


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

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