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Geologic Unit: Culver Springs

Usage:

Culver Springs Member of Brodhead Formation (KY)


Geologic age:

Mississippian, Early


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

Exposure on slope along northern side of Belmont-Pitts Point Road, 2 mi west of Culver Springs School, 3.5 mi west of Belmont, southwestern Bullitt Co., northwestern KY (Stockdale, 1939).


AAPG geologic province:

Cincinnati arch


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