Beattie Formation | |
Type: | Formation |
Age: | Lower Permian |
Prilithology: | Limestone, Shale |
Namedfor: | Beattie, Kansas |
Year Ts: | 1933 |
Namedby: | Condra, G.E., and Busby, C.E. |
Region: | mid-continental |
Country: | United States |
Subunits: | Morrill Limestone Florena Shale Cottonwood Limestone |
Overlies: | Eskridge Shale |
Extent: | outcrops from southeast Nebraska to northeast-central Oklahoma |
The Beattie Formation, or Beattie Limestone, is a geologic formation in east-central Kansas, northeast-central Oklahoma, and southeastern Nebraska in the Midwestern United States.[1] It preserves fossils dating to the Permian period.