Usage:
Popcorn Sandstone Bed of Shetlerville Member of Renault Limestone (IL,KY)
(†Popcorn Sandstone Bed of Paoli Limestone abandoned by the IN Geol. Survey (type locality in IN). Replaced with Aux Vases Member of Paoli Limestone of Blue River Group. See Aux Vases.)
Geologic age:
Middle Mississippian (Visean; early Chesterian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: on hillside about 50 ft above Popcorn Spring, 3.5 mi northwest of Springville, about 700 ft west of Popcorn Church, and 200 ft north of section line, SE/4 SE/4 sec. 5, T. 6 N., R. 2 W., Owensburg quadrangle, Lawrence Co., IN (Swann, 1963).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin
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