Usage:
Blue Creek Coal Member of Mansfield Formation of Raccoon Creek Group (IN)
Geologic age:
Early Pennsylvanian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in abandoned strip mine at west end of ridge, in SW/4 NW/4 sec. 10, T. 1 N., R. 3 W., Martin Co., south-central IN. Named from exposures at headwaters of Blue Creek (Gray and others, 1960).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin
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