Usage:
Boston Drift (OH)
Boston Till (OH)
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Pleistocene
Wisconsinan
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along Blinco Branch, 3.4 km east of Boston and 210 m south of U.S. Highway 50, Highland Co., OH (Rosengreen, 1974).
Reference section: main scarp near Storms, in Twin Twp. (Quinn and Goldthwait, 1985).
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.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
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