Usage:
Bethel Sandstone (KY*)
Bethel Sandstone of Paint Creek Group (IL-recognized in western part)
Bethel Sandstone of West Baden Group (IL-recognized in southeastern part)
Bethel Formation of West Baden Group (IN)
Bethel Member of Paint Creek Formation (MO)
Geologic age:
Middle Mississippian (Visean; early Chesterian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in vicinity of Bethel School, 3.5 mi west of Marion, Crittenden Co., western KY (Butts, 1917).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin*
Ozark uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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