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Geologic Unit: Barnhart

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Barnhart Formation (MO) is same as Spechts Ferry Formation of Decorah Group. See Spechts Ferry.)


Geologic age:

Late Ordovician (Mohawkian)


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: Koch Valley School on U.S. Highway 61-67, 2 mi south of Barnhart, Kimmswick 15-min quadrangle, Jefferson Co., east-central MO (Cooper, 1956).


AAPG geologic province:

Illinois basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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