Usage:
Falling Run Bed of Clegg Creek Member of New Albany Shale (IN)
Falling Run Bed of Ellsworth Member of New Albany Shale (IN)
Falling Run bed (informal) of Clegg Creek Member of New Albany Shale (KY)
[?] Falling Run Bed of Grassy Creek Shale Member of New Albany Shale of Knobs Group (IL-southern part)
For informal usage, the rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian (Kinderhookian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Falling Run Creek, New Albany, Floyd Co., IN (Campbell, 1946).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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