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Fort Riley Limestone

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Type
  
Formation Member

Country
  
Named for
  
Region
  
mid-continental

Primary
  
Limestone

Unit of
  
Barneston Limestone

Underlies
  
Holmesville Shale member of the Doyle Shale formation

Overlies
  
Oketo Shale member of the Barneston Limestone formation

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

References

Fort Riley Limestone Wikipedia


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