Greenhorn Station, 14 mi south of Pueblo, CO, and for Greenhorn Creek[1]
Named by
Grove Karl Gilbert
Year defined
1896[2]
Greenhorn Limestone (the United States)
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Greenhorn Limestone (Colorado)
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The Greenhorn Limestone or Greenhorn Formation is a geologic formation in the Great Plains Region of the United States, dating to the Cenomanian and Turonian ages of the Late Cretaceous period. The formation gives its name to the Greenhorn cycle of the Western Interior Seaway.
^"Geologic Unit: Greenhorn". National Geologic Database. Geolex — Unit Summary. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
^Donald E. Hattin (1975). Stratigraphy and Depositional Environment of Greenhorn Limestone (Upper Cretaceous) of Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 209. University of Kansas Publications, State Geological Survey of Kansas. p. History of Stratigraphic Nomenclature.
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expression. The source of this stone is the topmost layer of the GreenhornLimestone formation. It is a regional marker bed as well as a valued construction...
Skeletal remains of Xiphactinus have come from the Carlile Shale and GreenhornLimestone of Kansas (where the first Xiphactinus fossil was discovered during...
Cretaceous Marine Vertebrate Assemblage from the Lincoln Limestone Member of the GreenhornLimestone in Southeastern Colorado". Transactions of the Kansas...
as an identifying marker bed in the Pfeifer shale member of the GreenhornLimestone in Ellis, Ness, Hodgeman, and other Kansas counties. Sugar Sand Park...
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The fossils have been found in deposits of the Carlile Shale and GreenhornLimestone in Kansas and elsewhere in the midwestern United States. First discovered...
The complex bedding pattern observed in the Bridge Creek Limestone [upperGreenhornLimestone] is interpreted to result from the competing influences of...
fossil remains are known from the chalks of Alberta, Alabama, Kansas (GreenhornLimestone), New Mexico, Saskatchewan, and Texas, in strata that were laid down...
concretions. It rests on the Dakota Group and is in turn overlain by the GreenhornLimestone. The thickness varies from 114–1,000 feet (35–305 m). Because the...
A new polycotylid plesiosaur (Reptilia; Sauropterygia) from the GreenhornLimestone (Upper Cretaceous; lower upper Cenomanian), Black Hills, South Dakota:...
GreenhornLimestone region, Blue Hills or Kearney Hills, in the central region is made up of thin—usually less than 6 inches (15 cm)—chalky limestone...
a genus of polycotylid plesiosaur from the late Cenomanian-aged GreenhornLimestone of South Dakota, USA, about 94 million years ago. Distinctive features...
mainly grey shale with three exceptions: the Newcastle sandstone; the Greenhornlimestone, which contains many shark teeth fossils; and the Niobrara Formation...
elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous (middle Cenomanian) GreenhornLimestone of Kansas, United States. The genus contains a single species, P...
(Mancos shale) as described in southern Colorado, except the Fort Hays limestone and the Apishapa shale, can be recognized in northern New Mexico. "Colorado...
Cretaceous Marine Vertebrate Assemblage from the Lincoln Limestone Member of the GreenhornLimestone in Southeastern Colorado". Transactions of the Kansas...
in Colorado. It is mostly limited to the GreenhornLimestone, a geological formation appearing as limestone outcrops. It may also occur on Graneros shale...
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is not as weather-resistant as the "Fencepost" Limestone bed. It is softer than the GreenhornLimestone and spalls badly when used for foundation stone...
in 1898, based on a specimen from the older Lincoln Member of the GreenhornLimestone (Upper Cenomanian). Perhaps the oldest remains of Protosphyraena...
Maastrichtian of the United States (Mooreville Chalk of Alabama, GreenhornLimestone of Colorado, Niobrara Formation of Kansas & South Dakota), and Maastrichtian...
log indications of the top of the Greenhorn (Fencepost limestone) particularly correlate with the Laurier Limestone bed. The Favel Formation is an oil...
western United States as far east as Minnesota in the Cretaceous GreenhornLimestone as preserved by calcite twinning. The distance of stress transfer...
Dakota Formation, the GreenhornLimestone, and the thick Niobrara Chalk. Stratigraphically the Dakota is overlain by the Greenhorn and that by the Niobrara...
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