Fort Riley Limestone

Fort Riley Limestone
Stratigraphic range: Lower Permian
Type Formation Member
Unit of Barneston Limestone
Underlies Holmesville Shale member of the Doyle Shale formation
Overlies Oketo Shale member of the Barneston Limestone formation
Lithology
Primary Limestone
Location
Region mid-continental
Country United States
Type section
Named for Fort Riley, Kansas

The Fort Riley Limestone is a stratigraphic unit and historic building stone, sold commercially as "Silverdale",[1] in east-central Kansas, northeast-central Oklahoma, and southeastern Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. It preserves fossils dating to the Permian period.

See also

References

  1. Susan Ward Aber and David A. Grisafe (1982). Petrographic Characteristics of Kansas Building Limestones, Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 224. University of Kansas Publications, State Geological Survey of Kansas.

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