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Kansas City is a Late Carboniferous geologic group and formation having various significant alternating beds of limestone and shale known for forming high bluffs in Missouri, Kansas, and neighboring states. This formation was named for the bluffs within Kansas City, Missouri. [3] Primary group outcrops are in northwest Missouri.
Janesville Shale: Kansas City Group/Drum Formation: Carboniferous: Kansas City Group/Iola Formation: Carboniferous: Kansas City Group/Westerville Formation: Carboniferous: Kansas City Group/Wyandotte Formation: Carboniferous: Kanwaka Formation: Kingsdown Formation: Pleistocene: Kiowa Shale: Cretaceous: Lansing Group/Plattsburg Formation ...
The Old Lead Belt and Tri-State Area were mined significantly before World War II, with new deposits found since in the southeast. The new deposit is known as the Viburnum Trend and spans Iron County and Reynolds County, with secondary production of copper, cadmium and silver, housed in the Bonneterre Dolomite between 600 and 1500 feet deep.
Wise Lake Formation (449.4–447 Ma) Decorah Shale (454–452 Ma) Platteville Limestone (455–454 Ma) Glenwood Shale (~455 Ma) St. Peter Sandstone (~459–~455 Ma) Knox Unconformity (~470-~459 Ma) Knox Supergroup (~497-~470 Ma) Everton Dolomite; Shakopee Dolomite; Oneota Dolomite; Jordan Sandstone; Potosi Dolomite; Potsdam Sandstone. Munising ...
The Lawrence Formation, also referred to as Lawrence Shale, is a Late-Carboniferous geologic formation in Kansas, extending into Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, and Oklahoma. [2] [1] This unit was named by Erasmus Haworth in 1894, the year that Haworth founded the Kansas Geological Survey in Lawrence, Kansas, having personally surveyed the formation the year before.
The Chattanooga Shale is a geological formation in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee. It preserves conodont fossils dating to the Devonian period. [ 1 ] It occurs mostly as a subsurface geologic formation composed of layers of shale .
The Dakota is a sedimentary geologic unit name of formation and group rank in Midwestern North America. The Dakota units are generally composed of sandstones, mudstones, clays, and shales deposited in the Mid-Cretaceous opening of the Western Interior Seaway. [7]
Indian Rock Park includes this hill and the surrounding area with fields, cliffs, and recreational trails. Glennifer Hill Drive leads to the hilltop for parking, a panoramic city view, and trails into the diversion channel as well as to the Wellington shale exposed by the abandoned brick factory quarry now named Indian Rock Lake. [22] [25] [26]