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Geologic Unit: Stovall

Usage:

Stovall Member of Winfield Limestone of Chase Group (KS*,NE*)


Geologic age:

early Permian (Wolfcampian)*


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

Type locality: exposures in bluffs of Doyle Creek valley southeast of Stovall Farm and elevator, in southeastern Marion Co., KS. Named from farm and elevator located 7 mi southwest of Florence, Marion Co., KS (Condra and Upp, 1931).


AAPG geologic province:

Nemaha anticline*
Sedgwick 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 ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).