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Geologic Unit: Negli Creek

Usage:

Negli Creek Limestone Member of Kinkaid Limestone (IL)
Negli Creek Limestone Member of Tobinsport Formation (IN)
Negli Creek Member of Kinkaid Limestone (KY)


Geologic age:

Late Mississippian (Serpukhovian; late Chesterian)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Named from exposures along Negli Creek, a tributary of Little Deer Creek, 4 or 5 mi east of Tell City, Perry Co., IN (Malott, 1925).


AAPG geologic province:

Illinois basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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