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*
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