Usage:
No current usage.
(†Unity Farm Shale Member of Lees Summit Shale of Pleasanton Group (MO) replaced with Mantey Shale Member of Shale Hill Formation of Pleasanton Group. See Mantey.)
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: shale quarry in NE/4 NW/4 sec. 27, T. 48 N., R. 32 W., Jackson Co., MO. Named from Unity Farms in Jackson Co., MO (Howe, 1982).
AAPG geologic province:
Forest City basin
Iowa shelf
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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