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Geologic Unit: Maddox Branch

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*


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 ([ ]).