Usage:
Bromley Shale Bed of Point Pleasant Tongue of Clays Ferry Formation (KY*-subsurface)
Bromley Shale Member of Point Pleasant Formation (OH)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Mohawkian to Cincinnatian; Shermanian to Edenian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Where well exposed along the Ohio River just below Bromley, Kenton Co., KY (Bassler, 1906).
AAPG geologic province:
Cincinnati arch*
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