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  • Usage in publication:
    • Claryville clays
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Clay
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cincinnati arch
Publication:

Durrell, R.H., 1961, The Pleistocene geology of the Cincinnati area (Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana); Field trip no. 3: Geological Society of America Field Trip Guidebook, 74th annual meeting, Cincinnati, OH, p. 47-57.


Summary:

Consists of dark yellow-brown-gray and olive-gray, fine-grained, thick-bedded, finely laminated, sometimes varve-like, limonite-rich clay shale. Thickness is 6.72 m. Overlies alluvium. Age is early Pleistocene.
Probably named for town of Claryville, Campbell Co., northern KY.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Claryville Clay*
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cincinnati arch
Publication:

Luft, S.J., 1980, Map showing the late preglacial (Teays-age) course and pre-Illinoian deposits of the Licking River in north-central Kentucky: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map, MF-1194, 1 sheet, scale 1:125,000, Prepared in cooperation with Kentucky Geol. Survey


Summary:

Claryville Clays of Durrell (1961) revised as Claryville Clay. Outcrops in Licking River valley in Campbell Co., northern KY. Age is early Pleistocene.

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


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