Usage:
House Springs Bentonite Bed of Kimmswick Limestone (MO*)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Mohawkian; Chatfieldian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (House Springs section): roadcut on east side of MO Highway 30, 0.8 km north of intersection with Highway W at House Springs, in irregular unnumbered section between sec. 32 and sec. 33, T. 43 N., R. 4 E., House Springs 7.5-min quadrangle, Jefferson Co., MO (Kolata and others, 1986).
AAPG geologic province:
Ozark uplift*
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