Admire Group (NEPa;0)

Shale and interbedded limestone. Shale is dark gray to light gray, brown, red, or green, sandy, calcareous, and fossiliferous. Interbedded dark- to light-gray, very thin to medium bedded, argillaceous, very fossiliferous limestone beds. Near top of unit a fine-grained, micaceous sandstone bed underlies a stromatolite limestone bed which has distinctive lobate bedding. Approx. max thickness 150 ft

State	Nebraska
Name	Admire Group
Geologic age	Phanerozoic \| Paleozoic \| Permian
Original map label	Pa
Comments	Lower part of Big Blue Series- Includes in decending order: Hamlin Shale, Five Point Limestone, West Branch Shale, Falls City Limestone, and Onaga Shale.
Primary rock type	shale
Secondary rock type	limestone
Other rock types	sandstone
Lithologic constituents	Major Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed) Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale (Bed) Incidental Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone (Bed)
Map references	Burchett, R. R., 1986, Geologic Bedrock Map of Nebraska: Nebraska Geological Survey. Scale 1:1 Million.
Unit references	Burchett, R. R., 1986, Geologic Bedrock Map of Nebraska: Nebraska Geological Survey. Scale 1:1 Million. Burchett, R. R., Dreeszen, V. H., and Reed E. C., 1972, Bedrock Geologic Map Showing Thickness of Overlying Quaternary Deposits, Lincoln Quad. and part of Nebraska City Quad., Nebraska and Kansas: USGS Map I-729. Scale 1:250K.
Geographic coverage	Gage - Johnson - Lancaster - Nemaha - Otoe - Pawnee - Richardson