Usage:
No current usage.
(†Babylon cyclothem (informal) (IL) considered obsolete.)
Geologic age:
Pennsylvanian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Origin of name not stated by author [Wanless, 1931], but there is a village of that name [Babylon] in Fulton Co., central western IL (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 896).
Named from exposures along Spoon River 0.5 mi north of Babylon, in NE/4 NE/4 sec. 14, T. 7 N., R. 1 E., Fulton Co., central western IL (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).