Clarification and Changes in Permian Stratigraphic Nomenclature in Kansas
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This paper outlines Permian nomenclature changes to Zeller (1968) that have been adopted by the Kansas Geological Survey. The Permian System/Period, Cisuralian Series/Epoch, and Asselian Stage/Age are established at the base of the Bennett Shale Member of the Red Eagle Limestone. Series/epoch names Wolfcampian, Leonardian, and Guadalupian are retained and usage of Gearyan, Cimarronian, and Custerian is abandoned. The repositioned Carboniferous-Permian boundary divides the Council Grove Group into Carboniferous (Upper Pennsylvanian Series/Epoch; Virgilian Stage/Age) and Permian (Wolfcampian Series/Epoch) segments.
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Wardlaw, B. R., Davydov, V., and Gradstein, F. M., 2004, The Permian Period; in, A Geologic Time Scale 2004, F. M. Gradstein, J. G. Ogg, and A. G. Smith, eds.: Cambridge University Press, p. 249-270.
Zeller, D. E., ed., 1968, The stratigraphic succession in Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 189, 81 p. [available online]
Baars, D. L., Ritter, S. M., Maples, C. G., and Ross, C. A., 1994, Redefinition of the Upper Pennsylvanian Virgilian Series in Kansas; in, Revision of Stratigraphic Nomenclature in Kansas, D. L. Baars (compiler): Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 230, p. 11-16.
Baars, D. L., Ross, C. A., Ritter, S. M., and Maples, C. G., 1994, Proposed repositioning of the Pennsylvanian-Permian boundary in Kansas; in, Revision of Stratigraphic Nomenclature in Kansas, D. L. Baars (compiler): Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 230, p. 5-9.
Boardman, D. R., II, Nestell, M. K., and Wardlaw, B. R., 1998, Uppermost Carboniferous and lowermost Permian deposition and conodont biostratigraphy of Kansas, USA; in, Permian Stratigraphy, Environments, and Resources, v. 2, Y. Jin, B. R. Wardlaw, and Y. Wang, eds.: Palaeoworld, no. 9, p. 19-32.
Chuvashov, B. I., Chernykh, V. V., Leven, E. Ya., Davydov, V. I., Bowring, S. A., Ramezani, J., Glenister, B. F., Henderson, C. M., Schiappa, T. A., Northrup, C. J., Snyder, W. S., Spinosa, C., and Wardlaw, B. R., 2002a, Proposal for the base of the Sakmarian Stage--GSSP in the Kondurovsky Section, southern Urals, Russia: Permophiles, no. 41, p. 4-13.
Chuvashov, B. I., Chernykh, V. V., Leven, E. Ya., Davydov, V. I., Bowring, S. A., Ramezani, J., Glenister, B. F., Henderson, C. M., Schiappa, T. A., Northrup, C. J., Snyder, W. S., Spinosa, C., and Wardlaw, B. R., 2002b, Progress report on the base of the Artinskian and base of the Kungurian by the Cisuralian Working Group: Permophiles, no. 41, p. 13-16.
Dunbar, C. O., Baker, A. A., Cooper, G. A., King, P. B., McKee, E. D., Miller, A. K., Moore, R. C., Newell, N. D., Romer, A. S., Sellards, E. H., Skinner, J. W., Thomas, H. D., and Wheeler, H. E., 1960, Correlation of the Permian formations of North America: Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, v. 71, no. 12, p. 1,763-1,806.
Fay, R. O., 1965, Geology of Woods County: Oklahoma Geological Survey, Bulletin 106, 189 p., 4 pl.
Glenister, B. F., Wardlaw, B. R., Lambert, L. L., Spinosa, C., Bowring, S. A., Erwin, D. H., Menning, M., and Wilde, G. L., 1999, Proposal of Guadalupian and component Roadian, Wordian, and Capitanian Stages as international standards for the Middle Permian Series: Permophiles, issue 34, p. 3-11.
Jewett, J. M., 1959, Graphic column and classification of rocks in Kansas: State Geological Survey of Kansas, chart, 1 p.
Mei, S., Henderson, C. M., and Wardlaw, B. R., 2002, Evolution and distribution of the conodonts Sweetognathus and Iranognathus and related genera during the Permian, and their implications for climate change: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 180, p. 57-91.
Menning, M., Alekseev, A. S., Chuvashov, B. I., Davydov, V. I., Devuyst, F. -X., Forke, H. C., Grunt, T. A., Hance, L., Heckel, P. H., Izokh, N. G., Jin, Y. -G., Jones, P. J., Kotlyar, G. V., Kozur, H. W., Nemyrovska, T. I., Schneider, J. W., Wang, X. -D., Weddige, K., Weyer, D., and Work, D. M., 2006, Global time scale and regional stratigraphic reference scales of Central and West Europe, East Europe, Tethys, South China, and North America as used in the Devonian-Carboniferous-Permian correlation chart 2003 (DCP 2003): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 240, p. 318-372.
Mudge, M. R., 1967, Paleotectonic investigations of the Permian System in the United States, Chapter F, Central midcontinent region: U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 515-F, p. 93-123. [available online]
Newell, N. D., 1940, Invertebrate fauna of the late Permian Whitehorse sandstone: Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, v. 51, p. 261-336.
Norton, G. H., 1939, Permian red beds of Kansas: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 23, no. 12, p. 1,751-1,819.
O'Connor, H. G., 1963, Changes in Kansas stratigraphic nomenclature: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 47, no. 10, p. 1,873-1,877.
Rascoe, B., Jr., and Baars, D. L., 1972, Permian System; in, Geologic Atlas of the Rocky Mountain Region, W. W. Mallory, ed.: Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, Denver, Colorado, p. 143-165.
Sawin, R. S., West, R. R., Franseen, E. K., Watney, W. L., and McCauley, J. R., 2006, Carboniferous-Permian boundary in Kansas, midcontinent, U.S.A.; in, Current Research in Earth Sciences: Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 252, part 2, online at http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Current/2006/sawin/index.html.
Skinner, J. W., 1946, Correlation of Permian of west Texas and southeast New Mexico: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 30, no. 11, p. 1,857-1,874.
Wardlaw, B. R., 2004, Building an international Permian System and its correlation in the USA: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 4, p. 67.
Wardlaw, B. R., Boardman, D. R., II, and Nestell, M. K., 2006, Carboniferous-Permian stratigraphy of the midcontinent: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 2, p. 4.
Wardlaw, B. R., Davydov, V., and Gradstein, F. M., 2004, The Permian Period; in, A Geologic Time Scale 2004, F. M. Gradstein, J. G. Ogg, and A. G. Smith, eds.: Cambridge University Press, p. 249-270.
Zeller, D. E., ed., 1968, The stratigraphic succession in Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 189, 81 p. [available online]
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Sawin, Robert S., Evan K. Franseen, Ronald R. West, Greg A. Ludvigson, and W. Lynn Watney. 2008. “Clarification and Changes in Permian Stratigraphic Nomenclature in Kansas”. Current Research in Earth Sciences, no. 254 (September): 1-4. https://doi.org/10.17161/cres.v0i254.11839.
