Usage:
Paoli Limestone (IN*,KY*)
Paoli Limestone of Blue River Group (IN*)
Paoli Member of Renault Formation (IN)
Subunits:
FORMATION STATUS (alphabetical) --all in IN*: Aux Vases Member, Downeys Bluff Member, Renault Member, Yankeetown Member.
Geologic age:
Middle Mississippian (Visean; early Chesterian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Paoli, Orange Co., south-central IN (Elrod, 1899).
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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