Named as a member of Lexington Limestone. Named for Strodes Creek, Austerlitz quad, Clark Co., north-central KY. Well exposed in many roadcuts along US Hwy 227 and I-64 between type locality and section B of reference section. Consists chiefly of moderately grayish-brown to gray, dense, nonfissile limestone having textural characteristics of mudstone, with minor amounts of gray to reddish-brown, fissile, shaly, argillaceous calcisiltite as partings and in places as beds. Readily recognized by its bouldery aspect attributed to combination of pinch-and-swell bedding, ball-and-pillow structure, and bulbous stromatoporoids. Thickness at type is 7.2 ft. Considered a lens or possibly a tongue within Millersburg Member of Lexington Limestone. Contains bryozoans, pelecypods, gastropods, corals, ostracodes, brachiopods, algal stromatolites, stromatoporoids, trilobites, and conodonts. Age is Late Ordovician. Report includes cross section, stratigraphic section, measured sections, and fossil lists.

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

Pg. 7 (fig. 3), 69. Strodes Creek Member of Lexington Limestone. Age is Late Ordovician (Edenian). [On p. 111 (discussion of AUGUSTOCERAS), author implies age is Shermanian.]

Source: Publication.