| Kansas City Group/Formation | |
| Type: | Group/Formation |
| Prilithology: | Cherty limestone, shale, sandstone |
| Otherlithology: | coal |
| Year Ts: | 1898 |
| Namedfor: | Kansas City, Missouri |
| Namedby: | J. A. Gallager[1] |
| Region: | Midcontinent Seaway |
| Country: | United States |
| Unitof: | Missourian Stage |
| Subunits: | Kansas Classification: Bonner Springs Shale Wyandotte Limestone Lane Shale Iola Limestone Chanute Shale (sandy) Drum Limestone (cherty) Cherryvale Shale (cherty) Dennis Limestone (cherty) Galesburg Shale (sandy) Swope Limestone Ladore Shale Hertha Limestone |
| Underlies: | Lansing Group |
| Overlies: | Pleasanton Group |
Kansas City is a Late Carboniferous geologic group and formation having various significant alternating beds of limestone and shale known for forming high bluffs in Missouri, Kansas, and neighboring states. This formation was named for the bluffs within Kansas City, Missouri.[2] Primary group outcrops are in northwest Missouri. This group has been a historic oil producing unit within the state of Kansas.[3]