Usage:
Maddox Branch Member of Slade Formation (KY*)
Geologic age:
Mississippian, Late*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Roadcut along westbound lanes of Interstate Highway 64, 15.7 km west of its intersection with KY Highway 2, Soldier quadrangle, Rowan Co., KY. Named from Maddox Branch northeast of the type section. (Ettensohn and others, 1984).
AAPG geologic province:
Cincinnati arch*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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