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Geologic Unit: Sellersburg

Usage:

Sellersburg Limestone (KY*,IN*)
(†Sellersburg Limestone not used by the IN Geol. Survey. Replaced with North Vernon Limestone. See North Vernon.)


Subunits:

Silver Creek and overlying Beechwood Members (KY*,IN*)


Geologic age:

Middle Devonian*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type area: vicinity of Sellersburg, Clark Co., IN.


AAPG geologic province:

Cincinnati arch*
Illinois basin*


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 ([ ]).