Usage:
Hindsville Limestone (AR,MO*,OK*)
Hindsville Limestone of Mayes Group (OK)
Hindsville Formation (AR)
Hindsville Limestone Member of Batesville Sandstone (AR*,MO,OK)
Geologic age:
Late Mississippian (Chesterian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposure near Hindsville, Eureka Springs quadrangle, Madison Co., northern AR (Purdue and Miser, 1916).
AAPG geologic province:
Chautauqua platform*
Arkoma basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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