Usage:
Baldwin Formation (IL)
Geologic age:
Middle Mississippian (Visean; early Chesterian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from town on east side of Kaskaskia River in Randolph Co., southwestern IL. Outcrops extend from near Baldwin to Fort George and thence along Missisippi bluff to mouth of Marys River (Weller, 1939).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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