Usage:
Knifely Sandstone Member of Fort Payne Formation (KY*)
Geologic age:
Middle Mississippian (Visean; Osagean)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: high bluff on north side of Green River Lake opposite Fisher Bend, about 9 mi north of Columbia, Adair Co., KY. Named from Knifely, Adair Co., KY (Kepferle and Lewis, 1974).
AAPG geologic province:
Cincinnati arch*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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