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Geologic Unit: Pendleton

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.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).