Beattie Limestone

Beattie Limestone
Stratigraphic range: Lower Permian
Type Formation
Unit of Council Grove Group
Sub-units Morrill Limestone
Florena Shale
Cottonwood Limestone
Underlies Stearns Shale
Overlies Eskridge Shale
Lithology
Primary Limestone, Shale
Location
Region mid-continental
Country United States
Extent outcrops from southeast Nebraska to northeast-central Oklahoma[1]

The Beattie Limestone is a geologic formation in east-central Kansas, northeast-central Oklahoma, and southeastern Nebraska in the Midwestern United States.[1][2] It preserves fossils dating to the Permian period.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Imbrie, John; Laporte, Léo F. & Merriam, Daniel F. (1964), Beattie Limestone Facies (Lower Permian) of the Northern Midcontinent, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, Kansas.
  2. "Geologic Unit: Beattie". Geolex – National Geologic Database. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2015-01-11.

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