Usage:
Drakes Formation (KY*,IN*,OH*)
Drakes Formation of Cincinnati group (informal) (OH)
(informal Cincinnati group is the usage of the OH Geol. Survey. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in KY*: Bardstown Member, Preachersville Member, Rowland Member, Saluda Dolomite Member.
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Cincinnatian; Richmondian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Along dirt road from Preachersville to Cartersville, near East Fork of Drakes Creek, Paint Lick quadrangle, in southern Garrard Co., KY (Weir and others, 1965).
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 ([ ]).