Usage:
Brickeys Member of Bloomsdale Limestone of Plattin Group (MO)
Brickeys Member of Mifflin Formation of Platteville Group (IL)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Mohawkian; Turinian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposure in quarry on the east side of MO Highway 25, 0.3 mi south of the side road, Ste. Genevieve Co., MO. Named from village of Brickeys, MO (Templeton and Willman, 1963).
AAPG geologic province:
Ozark uplift
Wisconsin arch
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