Usage:
Greenfield Formation of Bass Islands Group (OH)
Greenfield Dolomite of Bass Islands Group (OH*,MI)
Greenfield Dolomite (KY*)
Greenfield Member of Bass Islands Dolomite (OH)
Geologic age:
late Silurian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: near Greenfield, Highland Co., western OH (Orton, 1871; Stout, 1941).
AAPG geologic province:
Cincinnati arch*
Michigan 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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