Usage:
Cave Branch Bed of Slade Formation (KY*)
Geologic age:
Mississippian, Late*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: south side of valley of Cave Branch, in roadcut along KY Highway 1274, 0.5 km south of Licking River, northeastern Menifee and northwestern Morgan Cos., east-central KY (Dever, 1980).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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