Beattie Formation

{{Short description|Geologic formation in the United States}}

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| name = Beattie Formation

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| type = Formation

| age = Lower Permian

| prilithology = Limestone, Shale

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| namedfor = Beattie, Kansas

| year_ts = 1933

| namedby = Condra, G.E., and Busby, C.E.

| region = mid-continental

| country = United States

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| unitof = Council Grove Group

| subunits = Morrill Limestone
Florena Shale
Cottonwood Limestone

| underlies = Stearns Shale

| overlies = Eskridge Shale

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| extent = outcrops from southeast Nebraska to northeast-central Oklahoma

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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.{{Citation | last1 = Imbrie | first1 = John | last2 = Laporte | first2 = Léo F. | last3 = Merriam | first3 = Daniel F. | name-list-style = amp | title = Beattie Limestone Facies (Lower Permian) of the Northern Midcontinent | publisher = Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, Kansas. | url = http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/Bulletins/169/Imbrie/ | year = 1964 }}{{cite web | title = Geologic Unit: Beattie | work = Geolex – National Geologic Database | url = https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/UnitRefs/BeattieRefs_6748.html| access-date = 2015-01-11 | publisher = United States Geological Survey }} It preserves fossils dating to the Permian period.