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Abstract

Introduction

General Setting

Purpose

Typical Stanton Limestone in Eastern Kansas

Captain Creek Limestone Member

Eudora Shale Member

Stoner Limestone Member

Rock Lake Shale Member

South Bend Limestone Member

Stanton Formation in the Detrital Facies Belt of Montgomery County

Previous Work

Present Stratigraphic Framework

Members

Captain Creek Limestone Member

Stoner Limestone Member

South Bend Limestone Member

Eudora and Rock Lake Shale Members

Beds

Timber Hill siltstone bed

Rutland limestone bed

Bolton limestone bed

Tyro oolite bed

Calcareous horizons in the Rock Lake Member

Sandstones in the Rock Lake Member

Implications to Stratigraphic Subdivisions in Oklahoma

Relationship of Stanton Units to Birch Creek Limestone in Northern Washington County

Relationship of Stanton Units to Torpedo Sandstone

Relationship of Stanton Formation to Wann Formation (as Redefined)

The Missourian-Virgilian Boundary

Depositional Significance of Stanton Facies in Southeastern Kansas

Carbonate Rocks

Phylloid-algal mound complexes

Skeletal calcarenites

Oolites

Sponge-rich calcilutites

Stromatolites

Terrigenous Detrital Rocks

Shales

Sandstones

Conglomeratic sandstone at base of South Bend

Conclusions

Stratigraphic Considerations

1. Members

2. Beds

3. Correlation into Oklahoma

4. Sedimentary break at Rock Lake-South Bend contact

Depositional Considerations

5. General sequence of environments

6. Significance of the sequence

7. Relation between sedimentation and subsidence

Appendix 1 (Locations of Measured and Estimated Sections)

References

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