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Geologic Unit: Jeffersonville

Usage:

Jeffersonville Limestone (IN*,KY*)
Jeffersonville Limestone of Muscatatuck Group (IN)


Subunits:

Dutch Creek Sandstone Member (IN,KY), Geneva Dolomite Member (IN,KY), Vernon Fork Member (IN,KY)


Geologic age:

late Early to early Middle Devonian (Emsian to Eifelian)*


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

Falls of the Ohio at Jeffersonville, Carter Co., IN (Kindle, 1899).


AAPG geologic province:

Cincinnati arch*


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 ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).