Pg. 295. Aux Vases sandstone. Fine-grained ferruginous sandstone, 10 to 100 feet thick, the "ferruginous sandstone" of Shumard and others. Overlies Ste. Genevieve limestone and underlies Kaskaskin limestone. Age is Mississippian (Chester).
[Named from exposures on Aux Vases River, Ste. Genevieve Co., eastern MO.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 94).

Aux Vases sandstone of Chester group. The formation overlying Aux Vases sandstone is now [ca. 1938] known as Renault formation, and Aux Vases rests unconformably on Ste. Genevieve limestone. (See also under Ste. Genevieve limestone.) Present in eastern Missouri and southwestern Illinois. Age is Mississippian.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 94).

Pg. 766 (fig. 1), 823-824; J.M. Weller, 1939, Kansas Geol. Soc. Gdbk., 13th Ann. Field Conf., p. 131, 134. Aux Vases sandstone of New Design group. Basal formation of newly defined New Design group. Commonly a brownish massive fine-grained cross-bedded sandstone. In Missouri more or less variegated shaly beds occur in both upper and lower parts of formation and middle massive sandstone is more yellowish; in Perry County, is coarser grained and locally resembles St. Peter formation. Basal conglomerate present in many places in both Illinois and Missouri. Thickness varies because of deposition upon uneven surfaces of Ste. Genevieve and St. Louis limestone. In Monroe County, Illinois, overlapped by Renault; elsewhere attains thickness of 80 to 100 feet. Age is Late Mississippian (Chester).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 175-176).

Aux Vases sandstone. Geographically extended into southern Indiana where it underlies Paoli limestone and overlies Ste. Genevieve limestone. Age is Late Mississippian (early Chester).

Source: Publication; US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 175-176).

Pg. 11-12. Aux Vases sandstone. Typically rests on Bryantsville breccia. Varies from thin shaly beds only a few inches thick to a hard cross-laminated calcareous sandstone 1 to 8 feet thick. At many places, welded directly with base of Paoli limestone without sign of break between the two. Extends throughout outcrop area of base of Chester, except locally; about 6 miles northwest of Greencastle, Putnam County, Pennsylvanian Mansfield sandstone cuts below it at Mississippian-Pennsylvanian contact. Age is Late Mississippian (Chester).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 175-176).

Pg. 23, pl. 1. Aux Vases formation. Because Indiana exposures contain variety of rock types and mixtures of rock types, Indiana Geological Survey uses term Aux Vases formation. Term New Design group not used in Indiana. Age is Late Mississippian (Chester).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 175-176).

Pg. 49-50. Term Aux Vases rejected in Indiana. Unit formerly called Aux Vases is included in Paoli limestone as herein redefined.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 175-176).

Blue River Group of IN is here revised. Both in the subsurface and at the surface it is now divided into (ascending) St. Louis, Ste. Genevieve, and Paoli Limestones. Paoli is now divided into (ascending) Aux Vases, Renault, Yankeetown, and Downeys Bluff Members. Aux Vases and Renault no longer used as formations in the subsurface. This nomenclature replaces that of Shaver and others (1986) as official IN state usage. In this study, Aux Vases is restricted to the shales and sandstones that lie between the interbedded carbonate rocks, shales, and sandstones of the uppermost part of the Ste. Genevieve Limestone below and the Renault Member of the Paoli Limestone above. As defined here, the Aux Vases ranges from less that 1 ft to more than 30 ft in thickness. Generally less than 10 ft in the subsurface; max of 38 ft in Posey Co. Replaces Popcorn Member of previous usage.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).

Used as Mississippian (Chesterian) Aux Vases Member of Paoli Limestone in IN. Authors follow usage of Droste and Carpenter (1990).

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).

Upper Mississippian (Meramecian) Aux Vases Sandstone is separately mapped as well as undivided (in IL) with Yankeetown Sandstone and Renault Limestone. Interfingers with various facies of underlying Ste. Genevieve Limestone.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).