Usage:
Ashland facies (informal) in Cedar Valley Limestone (MO)
(†Ashland Limestone abandoned as formal term by the MO Geol. Survey. Considered same as, or part of Cedar Valley Limestone. See Cedar Valley.)
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Middle Devonian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: in NE/4 SW/4 sec. 1, T. 46 N., R. 12 W., Boone Co., northeastern MO, about 0.3 mi north of Sycamore School, along an old abandoned roadway, 9 mi north-northwest of Jefferson City. Type locality covers only about 10 acres. Named from village of Ashland (Unklesbay, 1952).
AAPG geologic province:
Ozark uplift
Lincoln anticline
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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