Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Tanners Creek Formation (IN) reallocated to upper part of Dillsboro Formation. See Dillsboro.)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposed in 7 railroad cuts on the New York Central RR along west fork of Tanners Creek between Harmons Station and Guilford, Dearborn Co., southeastern IN (Fox, 1962).
AAPG geologic province:
Cincinnati arch
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