Cherokee Group

{{short description|Geologic group in Missouri and Iowa, US}}

{{distinguish|Cherokee heritage groups}}

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| name = Cherokee Group

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| type = Group

| age = Pennsylvanian

| period = Pennsylvanian

| prilithology = Shale

| otherlithology = Limestone, coal, sandstone

| namedfor = Cherokee County of southeastern Kansas

| namedby = Haworth and Kirk (1894) [http://www.dnr.mo.gov/geology/geosrv/ogc/docs/RI-073.pdf Thompson, Thomas L., 2001, Lexicon of Stratigraphic Nomenclature in Missouri, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Land Survey, Report of Investigation Number 73, p 63]

| region = Missouri, Iowa

| country = United States

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| subunits = Cabaniss and Krebs subgroups

| underlies = Marmaton Group

| overlies = Riverton Formation

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The Cherokee Group is a Pennsylvanian geologic group in Missouri and Iowa. The group contains most of the economic coal deposits of Missouri and Iowa.Raymond R. Anderson, Pennsylvanian Cherokee Group Strata in the Area of Dolliver Memorial State Park, in [https://www.iihr.uiowa.edu/igs/publications/uploads/GSI-081.pdf The Natural History of Dolliver Memorial State Park, Webster County, Iowa], Geological Society of Iowa Guidebook 81, September 29, 2007.