GEOLEX

Summary of Citation: Bellevue

Publication:
Nickles, J.M., 1902, The geology of Cincinnati: Cincinnati
   Society of Natural History Journal, v. 20, no. 2, p. 49-100

Usage in Publication:
Bellevue beds

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Named	Cincinnati arch	Limestone

Summary:
Bellevue beds named for Bellevue House, now disappeared, Cincinnati, OH. Comprises about 15 ft of limestone beds, essentially composed of bryozoans, overlain by 5 ft of limestone beds composed mostly of brachiopods. Underlain by Fairmont beds; overlain by Corryville beds.

Summary of Citation: Bellevue

Publication:
Hyde, D.E., 1959, A structural and stratigraphic study of the
   Fairview-McMillan formational contact in the Cincinnati area:
   The Compass, Sigma Gamma Epsilon Journal of Earth Sciences,
   v. 36, no. 3, p. 161-171

Usage in Publication:
Bellevue member

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Revised	Cincinnati arch

Summary:
Bellevue assigned as a member of the McMillan formation. Overlain by the Corryville member; underlain by the Fairmont member of the Fairview formation.

Summary of Citation: Bellevue

Publication:
Ford, J.P., 1967, Cincinnatian geology in southwest Hamilton
   County, Ohio: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
   Bulletin, v. 51, no. 6, p. 918-936

Usage in Publication:
Bellevue Limestone

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Revised Principal reference	Cincinnati arch

Summary:
Bellevue beds of Nickles (1902), basically a fossil defined unit, redefined as a lithologic unit and called Bellevue Limestone. Bellevue Limestone is defined here as a sequence of medium- to thin-bedded limestone and shale in which thin-bedded, massive, coquinite limestone predominates. [At the type section] unit is 25 feet thick. Base at lower surface of coquinite limestone is widely exposed and can be recognized with ease. Upper boundary is gradational and commonly concealed. Type section is in cliff at intersection of Rice and Gage Streets in Cincinnati, OH. This appears to be different location from type section designated by Nickles (1902). Underlain by Miamitown Shale; overlain by unnamed strata. Age is Late Ordovician.

Summary of Citation: Bellevue

Publication:
Swadley, W.C., 1969, Geologic map of the Union quadrangle, Boone
   County, Kentucky: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle
   Map, GQ-779, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000

Usage in Publication:
Bellevue Tongue*

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Revised	Cincinnati arch

Summary:
Reassigned as Bellevue Tongue of the Grant Lake Limestone. Consists of rubbly weathering, medium-gray limestone; beds thin, very irregular, and discontinuous; consists almost entirely of whole and broken brachiopods and bryozoans in an argillaceous calcareous matrix; weathers readily to yellowish-gray rubble that includes many whole fossils; rarely contains a few beds of even to irregularly bedded fine-grained limestone; locally includes small amounts of medium-gray shale as partings between limestone beds. Abundant fossils include Platystrophia, Hebertella, and Monticulapora. Thickness 8 to 23 ft. Underlain by Fairview Formation; overlain by Bull Fork Formation.

Summary of Citation: Bellevue

Publication:
Schumacher, G.A., Swinford, E.M. and Shrake, D.L., 1991,
   Lithostratigraphy of the Grant Lake Limestone and Grant Lake
   Formation (Upper Ordovician) in southwestern Ohio: Ohio
   Journal of Science, v. 91, no. 1, p. 56-68

Usage in Publication:
Bellevue Member

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Revised Overview	Cincinnati arch

Summary:
Grant Lake Limestone and Grant Lake Formation (of the informal Cincinnati group) are adopted by the Ohio Geological Survey for southwestern OH. The shale content of the Grant Lake Limestone progressively increases between Maysville, KY, and Cincinnati, OH. The term Grant Lake Formation is used where the unit becomes predominantly shale. The Grant Lake Formation is divided into (ascending) Bellevue, Corryville, and Mount Auburn Members. Name is applied in Butler , Hamilton, and Warren Cos. and in portions of Brown, Clermont, and Clinton Cos. The Grant Lake Limestone is divided into the Bellevue, Corryville, and Straight Creek (new name) Members. Name is applied in Adams and Highland Cos. and in portions of Brown, Clermont, and Clinton Cos. The Bellevue consists primarily of interbedded, wavy- to irregularly-bedded limestone and irregularly-bedded, fissile-parted, fossiliferous shale. Shale percentage ranges from 17 to 47 percent. Differentiated from the overlying Corryville by mean shale percentage, limestone bedding style, shale partings characteristics and shale fossil content. Thickness of the Bellevue ranges from <6 m to >21 m. Contact with the underlying Miamitown Shale or Fairview Formation ranges from sharp to gradational.

Summary of Citation: Bellevue

Publication:
Wahlman, G.P., 1992, Middle and Upper Ordovician symmetrical
   univalved mollusks (Monoplacophora and Bellerophontina) of
   the Cincinnati arch region, IN Pojeta, John, Jr., ed.,
   Contributions to the Ordovician paleontology of Kentucky and
   nearby states: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper,
   1066-O, p. O1-O203

Usage in Publication:
Bellevue Limestone*

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Overview	Cincinnati arch

Summary:
The Bellevue Limestone in southwestern OH and north-central KY is present in the Cincinnati area. Consists of a sequence of medium- to thick-bedded, coquinoid limestone, with minor interbedded shales. Thickness is 25 feet or less. Overlies the Kope Formation, intertongues with the Fairview or Dillsboro Formations, and may be a tongue of the Grant Lake Limestone. The Bellevue is of Late Ordovician (Maysvillian) age.

Summary of Citation: Bellevue

Publication:
Jennette, D.C. and Pryor, W.A., 1993, Cyclic alternation of
   proximal and distal storm facies; Kope and Fairview Formations
   (Upper Ordovician), Ohio and Kentucky: Journal of Sedimentary
   Petrology, v. 63, no. 2, p. 183-203

Usage in Publication:
Bellevue Tongue

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Overview	Cincinnati arch

Summary:
The Bellevue Tongue is a northern extension of the Grant Lake Limestone in northern KY, IN, and OH. The Kope-Fairview-Bellevue succession is the first of three major progradational units that compose the Cincinnatian Series in the Cincinnati, OH, area. Each succession is interpreted as a mixed siliciclastic-carbonate ramp. The Kope Formation is the most distal facies of the ramp complex, the Fairview is the intermediate-depth lithofacies, and the Bellevue is the shallow, inner-ramp to carbonate sand-shoal facies. Coarse-grained limestones make up the bulk of the Bellevue and are evidence of constant reworking and agitation. The shales that make up the rest of the unit are fossiliferous, poorly indurated, and better described as bioclastic silt. The trend toward larger, more robust fossils seen in the underlying Fairview reaches a maximum in the Bellevue. Large forms of RAFINESQUINA, HEBERTELLA, and PLATYSTROPHIA dominate the brachiopod species. Age of the Bellevue is Late Ordovician (Maysvillian).

Summary of Citation: Bellevue

Publication:
Frey, R.C., 1995, Middle and Upper Ordovician nautiloid cephalopods
   of the Cincinnati arch region of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio,
   IN Pojeta, John, Jr., ed., Contributions to the Ordovician
   paleontology of Kentucky and nearby states: U.S. Geological
   Survey Professional Paper, 1066-P, p. P1-P126

Usage in Publication:
Bellevue Limestone*

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Age modified	Cincinnati arch

Summary:
Age of Bellevue Limestone in southwestern OH refined to Cincinnatian (Maysvillian).