Usage:
Goreville Member of Kinkaid Limestone (IL,KY)
Geologic age:
Late Mississippian (Serpukhovian; late Chesterian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in quarry of Southern Illinois Rock and Stone Co. on west side of IL Highway 37 at north edge of Buncombe, 4 mi south of Goreville, SW/4 SW/4 SE/4 sec. 10, and NW/4 NW/4 NE/4 sec. 15, T. 12 S., R. 2 E., Vienna quadrangle, Johnson Co., southeastern IL (Swann, 1963).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin
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