Usage:
Buffalo Wallow Formation (KY*)
Buffalo Wallow Group (IN)
Subunits:
GROUP STATUS (alphabetical) --all in IN: Branchville Formation, Clore Limestone (subsurface), Degonia Sandstone (subsurface), Grove Church Shale (subsurface), Kincaid Limestone (subsurface), Menard Limestone (subsurface), Palestine Sandstone (subsurface), Tar Springs Formation, Tobinsport Formation, Vienna Limestone (subsurface), Waltersburg Sandstone (subsurface).
FORMATION STATUS (alphabetical) --all in KY*: Kincaid Member, Menard Limestone Member, Vienna Limestone Member, Waltersburg Member.
Geologic age:
Late Mississippian (Serpukhovian; late Chesterian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Buffalo Wallow, a cirque-like excavation in the shales of this formation on the highway 2 mi west of Cloverport, Breckinridge Co., KY (Butts, 1917).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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