Usage:
Kenwood Member of Pinicon Ridge Formation of Wapsipinicon Group (IA)
Geologic age:
Middle Devonian (late Eifelian to early Givetian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Typically developed in right bank of Indian Creek, back of the country club at Kenwood Park, a suburb of Cedar Rapids. Named from Kenwood, Linn Co., IA (Norton, 1894; M.A. Stainbrook, 1935, Kansas Geol. Soc. Guidebook, 9th Ann. Field Conf., p. 251).
AAPG geologic province:
Iowa shelf
Wisconsin arch
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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