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Geologic Unit: Butlerville

Usage:

Butlerville Till Member of Jessup Formation (IN)


Geologic age:

Quaternary
Pleistocene
Illinoian


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: road- and spillway-cut exposure at Brush Creek Reservoir, 2 mi northwest of Butlerville, Jennings Co., in NE/4 NE/4 sec. 16, T. 7 N., R. 9 E., Butlerville quadrangle, southeastern IN (Wayne, 1963).


AAPG geologic province:

Cincinnati arch
Illinois basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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