Usage:
Paint Lick Limestone of Eden Group (KY)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from Paint Lick Creek, Madison and Garrard Cos., KY (Foerste, 1906).
Later reports state beds are traceable from Bath Co. to Boyle Co., KY.
AAPG geologic province:
Cincinnati arch
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