Usage:
Dutch Creek Sandstone (IL*,MO)
Dutch Creek Sandstone Member of Grand Tower Limestone (IL)
Dutch Creek Sandstone Member of Jeffersonville Limestone (IN,KY)
Geologic age:
Middle Devonian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures along Dutch Creek, southwestern part of Union Co., IL (Savage, 1920).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin*
Ozark uplift
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