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Geologic Unit: Camp Run

Usage:

Camp Run Member of New Albany Shale (IN*,KY)


Geologic age:

late Late Devonian (Famennian)*


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

Type section: south side of U.S. Highway 31W at U.S. Interstate Highway I-65 overpass west of Sellersburg, in W/4 S/4, Lot 110, Clark's Grant, Clark Co., southeastern IN. Named from Camp Run just northeast of type section (Lineback, 1968).


AAPG geologic province:

Cincinnati arch*
Illinois basin*


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

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).