Usage:
Cedar Valley Limestone (IL*,IA*,MO)
Cedar Valley Formation (IL,IA,MN,MO)
Cedar Valley Group (IL,IA,MN,MO)
Subunits:
GROUP STATUS (alphabetical): Coralville Formation (IL,IA,MN,MO), Lithograph City Formation (IL,IA,MN,MO), Little Cedar Formation (IL,IA,MO), Shell Rock Formation (IA).
FORMATION STATUS (alphabetical): Ashland limestone facies (informal) (MO), Callaway facies (informal) (MO), Coralville Limestone Member (IA), Coralville Member (IL), Hoing Sandstone Member (IL), Linwood Member (IL), Littleton Member (IA), Rapid Limestone Member (IA), Rapid Member (IL), Solon Limestone Member (IA), Solon Member (IL), State Quarry Limestone Member (IA).
Geologic age:
late Middle Devonian to early Late Devonian (Givetian to Frasnian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures in valley of Cedar River, eastern IA (McGee, 1891).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin*
Iowa shelf*
Lincoln anticline
Ozark uplift
Wisconsin arch
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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