Usage:
North Bend Tongue of Fairview Formation (OH*)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Cincinnatian; Maysvillian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposure at about 618-630 ft elevation in southfacing bank of a southwest-flowing stream, slightly more than 1 mi east-northeast of North Bend, Hamilton Co., OH (Ford, 1967).
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.
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