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Geologic Unit: Indian Creek

Usage:

Indian Creek Limestone Beds of Levias Member of Ste. Genevieve Formation (IN)


Geologic age:

Middle Mississippian (Visean; early Chesterian)


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

Type section: abandoned Webster quarry, 3.5 mi southwest of Springville, Lawrence Co., south-central IN.
Reference section: "Old Tunnel section" of Malott (1952), in NW/4 sec. 35, T. 8 N., R. 2 W., Monroe Co., IN (Conner, 1986).


AAPG geologic province:

Illinois basin


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