Usage:
Renault Limestone (IL*,KY*)
Renault Formation (IL*,IN,KY*,MO)
Renault Limestone of Cedar Bluff Group (IL)
Renault Member of Paoli Limestone of Blue River Group (IN*)
Subunits:
Levias Member (IL*). Shetlerville Member (IL,KY).
Geologic age:
Middle Mississippian (Visean; early Chesterian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Renault Twp., Monroe Co. southwestern IL; excellent exposures are in Horse Creek Valley and tributaries in eastern part of Twp. (Weller 1913).
Type section: lowest gully on the south side of Dry Fork, in SE/4 SW/4 sec. 23, T. 4 S., R. 9 W., Renault quadrangle, Monroe Co., IL (Swann, 1963).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin*
Ozark uplift*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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