Usage:
Bushberg Sandstone Member of Sulphur Springs Formation (MO)
Bushberg Sandstone (IL,MO*)
Bushberg Sandstone of Sulphur Springs Group (MO)
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian (Kinderhookian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: at head of ravine draining into Mississippi River at Bushberg (former station on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern RR), in NW/4 NE/4 NW/4 sec. 8, T. 41 N., R. 6 W., Jefferson Co., Herculaneum 7.5-min quadrangle, Jefferson Co., eastern MO (Mehl, 1960).
AAPG geologic province:
Ozark uplift*
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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