Usage:
Millersburg Member of Lexington Limestone (KY*)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Mohawkian to Cincinnatian; Chatfieldian to Edenian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Vicinity of Millersburg, northeastern Bourbon Co., KY (Foerste, 1914).
Principal reference section: in roadcut on Athens-Boonesboro Road, 0.4 mi northwest of interchange with U.S. Interstate Highway I-75, Coletown quadrangle, Fayette Co., KY (Black and others, 1965).
AAPG geologic province:
Cincinnati arch*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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