Usage:
Finnie Sandstone Member of Tradewater Formation (KY)
[?] Finnie Sandstone (IN)
Called Finnie Bluff Sandstone in some early KY reports.
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Atokan)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Along road for less than 2 mi north of Mulfordtown [Milfordtown] near Caseyville, Union Co., KY. Named from Finnie Bluff, on road north of Milfordtown (Glenn, 1912; Kosanke and others, 1960).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin
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