Usage:
Moccasin Springs Member of Bainbridge Formation (MO*)
Moccasin Springs Formation (IL*,KY)
Moccasin Springs Formation of Bainbridge Group (IN)
Geologic age:
Silurian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
In small box canyon in Mississippi River bluff, about 3 mi south of Moccasin Springs, in SE/4 SE/4 NW/4 sec. 24, T. 32 N., R. 14 E., [Jonesburg quadrangle], Cape Girardeau Co., MO (Lowenstam, 1949).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin*
Ozark uplift*
Upper Mississippi embayment*
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 ( ).
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