Usage:
Cedar Bluffs Till (KS*,NE*)
Geologic age:
Pleistocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
In bluffs on southwest side of Platte River valley below Boy Scout Camp Cedars, about 3 mi northeast of town of Cedar Bluffs, in SW/4 NE/4 sec. 24, T. 17 N., R. 7 E., Saunders Co., NE. Well represented in prominent drainage divide between Big Blue River and Missouri River drainages in southeastern Nebraska where it forms prominent lateral moraine (Reed and Dreeszen, 1965).
AAPG geologic province:
Salina basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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