Usage:
Asherville Alluvium (MO)
Geologic age:
Pleistocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality not stated. Found in vicinity of Asherville, in sec. 15, T. 26 N., R. 8 E., Puxico quadrangle [Stoddard Co.] southeastern MO (Farrar and McManamy, 1937).
AAPG geologic province:
Upper Mississippi embayment
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