Usage:
Tanglewood Limestone Member of Lexington Limestone (KY*)
Tanglewood Member of Lexington Limestone (KY*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in KY: Greendale Lentil, Nicholas Bed*.
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Chatfieldian to Cincinnatian; Shermanian to Edenian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: roadcuts along U.S. Interstate Highway I-64 on west side of Kentucky River, Franklin Co., KY. Named from Tanglewood, a suburban area south of Frankfort, KY (Black and others, 1965).
AAPG geologic province:
Cincinnati arch*
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 ([ ]).