Usage:
Indian Cave Sandstone (MO*,NE*)
Indian Cave Sandstone Bed of Towle Shale Member of Onaga Shale of Admire Group (KS*)
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures in Indian Cave, southeastern Nebraska (Condra and Reed, 1943; Moore and others, 1951).
[Indian Cave, approx. Lat. 40 deg. 14 min. 47 sec. N., Long. 95 deg. 31 min. 08 sec. W., Barada 7.5-min quadrangle, Richardson Co., southeastern NE.]
AAPG geologic province:
Cherokee basin*
Forest City basin*
Nemaha anticline*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
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