Usage:
Glen Park Limestone of Sulphur Springs Group (MO*)
Glen Park Member of New Albany Shale of Knobs Group (IL-southern part)
Geologic age:
Late Devonian*; locally earliest Mississippian (earliest Kinderhookian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (Sulphur Springs Group): south of Glen Park, in old quarry face along river bluff above Missouri Pacific RR, in southeast corner of SE/4 NE/4 sec. 5, T. 41 N., R. 6 E., Jefferson Co., central eastern MO (Mehl, 1960; see Thompson, 2001).
Named from exposures at Glen Park Station, Jefferson Co., central eastern MO (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin
Ozark uplift*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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