Named Sellersburg beds. "These beds consist of a fine-grained calcareous sandstone from six to twenty feet thick * * *". A thin bed of limestone occurs at top in places. Overlies Jeffersonville limestone; underlies New Albany shale. Age is Devonian.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
Designated Sellersburg limestone. Divided into Silver Creek limestone member and overlying Beechwood limestone member. Silver Creek member is "* * * thick-bedded, dark-gray, fine-grained, low to high magnesian, siliceous and aluminous * * *" limestone. It is moderately fossiliferous, brachiopods and pelecypods being the most common fossils. Thickness ranges from 1.5 to 16 ft. The Beechwood member is "* * * rather thick-bedded. The lower part tends to a light gray color and a fairly coarsely crystalline texture, while the upper part is of finer grain and of dark gray color. It is full of crinoid joints * * *". Thickness probably does not exceed 6 ft. Sellersburg is unconformably underlain by Louisville Limestone; it is overlain by New Albany shale. Age is Middle Devonian.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
This compendium of rock-unit stratigraphy in Indiana does not list Sellersburg as a stratigraphic name in use in Indiana as of 1970. North Vernon Limestone, which has precedence, is used instead.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
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