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Geologic Unit: Casey

Usage:

No current usage?
(†Casey Member of Beechwood Formation of Boyle Group (KY) considered abandoned? Beechwood Formation not used by the KY Geol. Survey.)


Geologic age:

Middle Devonian


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

Section at Kidds store, intersection of KY Highway 906 and U.S. Highway 127, Casey Co., eastern KY (Conkin and others, 1973).


AAPG geologic province:

Cincinnati arch


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 ([ ]).