Usage:
Palestine Formation (KY*)
Palestine Sandstone (IL*,IN*,KY*)
Palestine Sandstone of Buffalo Wallow Group (IN-subsurface)
Palestine Sandstone of Pope Group (IL)
Palestine Member of Leitchfield Formation (KY)
Geologic age:
Late Mississippian (Serpukhovian; late Chesterian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Palestine Twp., Randolph Co., IL, where formation is well developed along tributaries to Tyndall Creek (Weller, 1913).
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.
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