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Contents
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
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)
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Kansas Geological Survey, Geology
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