Wabaunsee Group (KSPAw;0)

Wabaunsee Group

Includes: Wood Siding FM, Root Shale, Stotler Limestone (base ST), Pillsbury Shale, Zeandale Limestone (base Z), Willard Shale, Emporia Limestone (base E), Auburn Shale, Bern Limestone (base BR), Scranton Shale, Howard Limestone (base H), and Severy Shale.

State	Kansas
Name	Wabaunsee Group
Geologic age	Late Pennsylvanian- Virgilian
Lithologic constituents	Major Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale (Bed) Minor Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed) Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone (Bed)
Comments	Mostly blueish gray to yellowish brown shale but sandstone is locally abundant and thin limestone beds are persistent . Total approximate thickness 500 ft. in outcrop.
References	Ross, Jorgina A., 1991, Geologic Map of Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey, Univ. of Kansas, Map M-23, scale 1:500,000. Zeller, D.E., ed., 1968, The Stratigraphic Succession in Kansas, State Geological Survey of Kansas Bull. 189.
NGMDB product	NGMDB product page for 16542
Counties	Atchison - Brown - Chautauqua - Coffey - Cowley - Doniphan - Elk - Greenwood - Jackson - Jefferson - Lyon - Marshall - Nemaha - Osage - Pottawatomie - Riley - Shawnee - Wabaunsee - Woodson

Wabaunsee Group

Ross, Jorgina A., 1991, Geologic Map of Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey, Univ. of Kansas, Map M-23, scale 1:500,000.

Zeller, D.E., ed., 1968, The Stratigraphic Succession in Kansas, State Geological Survey of Kansas Bull. 189.