Usage:
Pendleton Sandstone (IN*)
Pendleton Sandstone Bed of Vernon Fork Member of Jeffersonville Limestone (IN)
Geologic age:
Middle Devonian (Eifelian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: center S/2 SW/4 sec. 16, T. 18 N., R. 7 E., at the falls of Fall Creek in Fall Park, north edge of Pendleton, Madison Co., eastern IN (Orr and Pierce, 1973).
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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