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Geologic Unit: Noix

Usage:

Noix Formation of Bainbridge Group (MO,IL)
Noix Limestone (MO*,IL*)
Noix Limestone of Edgewood Group (MO,IL)
Noix Oolite Member of Edgewood Limestone (MO*,IL*)


Geologic age:

Ordovician, Late*
Cincinnatian*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Named from exposures along Noix Creek at Louisiana, Pike Co., northeastern MO (Keyes, 1898).


AAPG geologic province:

Lincoln anticline*
Ozark uplift*
Illinois basin*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).