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  • Usage in publication:
    • Marble Hill rock
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cincinnati arch
Publication:

Owen, D.D., 1839, Report of geological reconnaissance and survey of the State of Indiana made in the years 1837 and '38; Part first, 1837: Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources Annual Report, 63 p.


Summary:

Named Marble Hill rock. Shell limestone as much as 24 ft thick.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Marble Hill Bed*
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
    • Areal extent
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cincinnati arch
Publication:

Swadley, WC, and Gibbons, A.B., 1976, Geologic map of the Campbellsburg quadrangle, north-central Kentucky: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map, GQ-1364, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000 [http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_10899.htm]


Summary:

Marble Hill rock of Owen (1859) [1839?] geographically extended into north-central KY and assigned to Rowland Member of Drakes Formation.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Marble Hill Bed*
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cincinnati arch
Publication:

Swadley, WC, 1979, The Marble Hill Bed; an offshore bar-tidal channel complex in the Upper Ordovician Drakes Formation of Kentucky, IN Shorter contributions to stratigraphy and structural geology, 1979: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1126-D, p. D1-D8. [Available online from the USGS PubsWarehouse: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/pubs/pp/pp1126AJ]


Summary:

Comprehensive discussion of lithology, distribution, and environment of deposition of Marble Hill Bed of Rowland Member of Drakes Formation in KY.

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


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