Usage:
No current usage.
(†Benson Limestone [unranked] in Lexington Limestone or †Benson Limestone of Lexington Group (KY*) replaced with Grier Limestone Member of Lexington Limestone. See Grier.)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Mohawkian; Chatfieldian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Benson, Franklin Co., central KY (Foerste, 1913).
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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