Usage:
Mooretown Sandstone (KY)
Mooretown Sandstone Member of Renault Formation (KY)
Mooretown Formation (IN*,KY*)
(†Mooretown Formation not used by the IN Geol. Survey. Replaced with Bethel Formation. See Bethel.)
Geologic age:
Middle Mississippian (Visean; early Chesterian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures near abandoned village of Mooretown, Lawrence Co., IN.
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin*
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 ([ ]).