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Geologic Unit: Corryville

Usage:

Corryville Member of Grant Lake Formation of Cincinnati group (informal) (OH)
Corryville Member of Grant Lake Limestone of Cincinnati group (informal) (OH)
Corryville Member of Grant Lake Formation (OH*)
Corryville Member of Grant Lake Limestone (KY,OH*)
Corryville Shale Member of Grant Lake Formation (OH*)

(informal Cincinnati group is the usage of the OH Geol. Survey. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.)


Geologic age:

Late Ordovician (Cincinnatian; Maysvillian)*


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

Not designated. Named from Corryville, near Cincinnati, OH (Nickles, 1902).


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 ([ ]).