Wabaunsee Group (NEPAw;0)

Wabaunsee Group

Shale, sandstone, and interbedded limestone. Shale is light gray to dark gray, greenish gray, red, or black; contains very thin layers of siltstone; locally very fossiliferous, carbonaceous. Sandstone is brownish gray to yellowish gray, or gray, argillaceous , and micaceous. Limestone is dark gray to medium gray, yellowish gray, thin bedded to thick bedded; very fossiliferous. Contains coal beds less than 1 ft. thick. Approx. max thickness 300 ft

State	Nebraska
Name	Wabaunsee Group
Geologic age	Late Pennsylvanian - Virgilian
Lithologic constituents	Major Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed) Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone (Bed) Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale (Bed) Incidental Sedimentary > Clastic > Siltstone (Bed) Sedimentary > Coal (Bed)
Comments	Includes in decending order: Wood Siding Formation, Root Shale, Stotler Limestone, Pillsbury Shale, Zeandale Limestone, Willard Shale, Emporia Limestone, Auburn Shale, Wakarusa Limestone, Solider Creek Shale, Burlingame Limestone, Scronton Shale, Howard Limestone, and Severy Shale.
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. https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/i729
NGMDB product	NGMDB product page for 39227
Counties	Cass - Johnson - Lancaster - Nemaha - Otoe - Pawnee - Richardson

Wabaunsee Group

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.