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  • Usage in publication:
    • Warix Run Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cincinnati arch
Publication:

Ettensohn, F.R., Rice, C.L., Dever, G.R., Jr., and Chesnut, D.R., 1984, Slade and Paragon Formations; new stratigraphic nomenclature for Mississippian rocks along the Cumberland Escarpment in Kentucky, IN Contributions to stratigraphy: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1605-B, p. B1-B37.


Summary:

The Warix Run Member of the Slade Formation, used informally by Dever (1977) and here named, consists of light-olive-gray quartzose calcarenite and lesser calcilutite. Strata of the Warix Run were previously assigned to the Newman Limestone, which is here excluded from the Cumberland Escarpment area of east-central and northeastern KY. Disconformably overlies the Borden Formation or Renfro, St. Louis, or Ste. Genevieve Members of the Slade Formation; intertongues with or conformably underlies the Mill Knob Member of the Slade. Thickness ranges from 0 to 31 m. Age is Late Mississippian.

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


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