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Geologic Unit: Battery Rock

Usage:

Battery Rock Sandstone Member of Caseyville Formation of Raccoon Creek Group (IL*,KY*)


Geologic age:

Early Pennsylvanian (Morrowan)*


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

Type locality: Battery Rock, a bluff along Ohio River, in sec. 26, T. 11 S., R. 10 E., Shawneetown 15-min quadrangle [1916 ed.], eastern Hardin Co., southern IL (Weller, 1940; Willman and others, 1975).


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 ([ ]).