Usage:
No current usage.
(†Ketcherside Tuff (MO-recognized locally in St. Francois Mountains area) considered abandoned.)
Geologic age:
Precambrian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Origin of name not stated by authors, but probably named from exposures on lower flanks of Ketcherside Mountain, in sec. 25, T. 33 N., R. 3 E., Iron Co., MO (Tolman and Robertson, 1969).
AAPG geologic province:
Midcontinent region
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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