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Geologic Unit: Taylor Branch

Usage:

Taylor Branch Limestone Member of Burlingame Formation of Wabaunsee Group (NE)


Geologic age:

Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)


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

Lowest heavy limestone at top of opening in clay pit south of Taylor Branch, south of Table Rock, Pawnee Co., NE (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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