Usage:
Beaver Bend Limestone (IN*,KY*)
Beaver Bend Limestone of West Baden Group (IN)
Beaver Bend Limestone Member of Renault Formation (KY)
Beaver Bend Limestone Member of Ridenhower Formation (IL)
Geologic age:
Middle Mississippian (Visean; early Chesterian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: conspicuous bend in Beaver Creek just east of Huron, Lawrence Co., IN, where Baltimore and Ohio RR cuts through a spur on the inside of the bend (Malott, 1919).
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.
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