Usage:
Bellevue Limestone (IN,KY*,OH*)
Bellevue Member of Grant Lake Formation of Cincinnati group (informal) (OH)
Bellevue Member of Grant Lake Limestone of Cincinnati group (informal) (OH)
Bellevue Member of Grant Lake Limestone (KY,OH*)
Bellevue Limestone Member of Grant Lake Formation (OH*)
Bellevue Tongue of Grant Lake Limestone of Cincinnati group (informal) (OH)
Bellevue Tongue of Grant Lake Limestone (IN,KY*)
(informal Cincinnati group is the usage of the OH Geol. Survey. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Cincinnatian; Maysvillian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: strata exposed near top of bluff at bend in Clifton Ave. just under the old Bellevue House, a one-time landmark now disappeared, Cincinnati, OH (Nickles, 1902).
AAPG geologic province:
Cincinnati arch*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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