Usage:
Cartersburg Till Member of Trafalgar Formation (IN)
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Pleistocene
Wisconsinan
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: cutbank exposed along southwest side of West Fork of White Lick Creek, 2 mi northwest of Cartersburg and 2 mi northeast of Clayton, in SW/4 SE/4 SW/4 sec. 23, T. 15 N., R. 1 W., Plainfield quadrangle, Hendricks Co., central IN (Wayne, 1963).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin
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