Usage:
Cane Run Bed of Grier Limestone Member of Lexington Limestone (KY*)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Mohawkian; Chatfieldian; Kirkfieldian and Shermanian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in Pemberton quarry on east side of U.S. Highway 25, 0.9 mi north of Linlee School, Fayette Co., central KY. Named from Cane Run, north-central Fayette Co., central KY (Black and others, 1965).
AAPG geologic province:
Cincinnati arch*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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