Usage:
Pencil Cave metabentonite (informal) (KY)
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Middle Ordovician (Blackriveran)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
KY Highway 627, near Kentucky River, Clark Co., KY. "Pencil Cave" is a commonly used driller's term (Conkin and Conkin, 1983).
AAPG geologic province:
Cincinnati arch
Appalachian 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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