Usage:
Somerset Shale Member of Salem Limestone (KY,IN)
Geologic age:
Mississippian, Late
Meramecian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Somerset, Pulaski Co., southern KY, where it is well exposed in railroad cut a short distance north of the station (Butts, 1922).
AAPG geologic province:
Cincinnati arch
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