Usage:
State Quarry Member of Lithograph City Formation of Cedar Valley Group (IA)
State Quarry Limestone Member of Cedar Valley Formation (IA)
State Quarry Limestone (IA*)
Geologic age:
late Middle to early Late Devonian (Givetian to Frasnian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures at old state quarry in Iowa River valley, 10 m north of Iowa City, Johnson Co., IA (Bunker and others, 1986; Witzke and others, 1988).
AAPG geologic province:
Iowa shelf
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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