Admire Group (NEPa;0)

Admire Group

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	Permian
Lithologic constituents	Major Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale (Bed) Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed) Incidental Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone (Bed)
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.
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	Gage - Johnson - Lancaster - Nemaha - Otoe - Pawnee - Richardson

Admire 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.