Usage:
Stamping Ground Member of Lexington Limestone (KY*)
Geologic age:
Middle Ordovician (Kirkfieldian and Shermanian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: measured in quarry on north side of Switzer Stamping Ground Road, 2,700 ft west of its intersection with U.S. Route 227, Scott Co., KY (Cressman, 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.
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