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Geologic Unit: Hazleton Bridge

Usage:

Hazleton Bridge Coal Member of Patoka Formation of McLeansboro Group (IN)


Geologic age:

Pennsylvanian, Late


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

At road level in White River bluff just south of White River bridge west of Hazleton on U.S. Highway, northern Gibson Co., southwestern IN (Malott, 1938, 1947 [1948]).


AAPG geologic province:

Illinois basin


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