Florena Shale

Florena Shale
Stratigraphic range: Lower Permian
Type Formation Member
Unit of Beattie Limestone
Underlies Morrill Limestone of the Beattie Limestone formation
Overlies Cottonwood Limestone of the Beattie Limestone formation
Lithology
Primary Shale
Location
Region mid-continental
Country United States

The Florena Shale is a stratigraphic unit in east-central Kansas, northeast-central Oklahoma, and southeastern Nebraska in the Midwestern United States.[1] It preserves fossils dating to the Permian period.

See also

References

  1. Imbrie, John; Laporte, Léo F. & Merriam, Daniel F. (1964), Beattie Limestone Facies (Lower Permian) of the Northern Midcontinent, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, Kansas.

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