Usage:
Jabez Sandstone Member of Fort Payne Formation (KY*)
Geologic age:
Middle Mississippian (Visean; Osagean)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: outcrops on south shore of Lake Cumberland near mouth of Harmon Creek in Jabez 7.5-min quadrangle, Wayne Co., KY (Kepferle and others, 1980).
AAPG geologic province:
Cincinnati arch*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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