Usage:
Anvil Rock Sandstone Member of Shelburn Formation of McLeansboro Group (IL*,KY*)
Anvil Rock Sandstone Member of Dugger Formation of Carbondale Group (IN*)
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Moscovian; Westphalian D; Desmoinesian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from bluff known as Anvil Rock [southwest of Henshaw near Ohio River] in Union Co., west-central KY (Owen, 1856).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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