Geologic Unit: Strodes Creek

Usage:

Strodes Creek Member of Lexington Limestone (KY*)

Geologic age:

Late Ordovician (Edenian)*

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

Type section: a series of roadcuts beginning at hillcrest, at KY State Grid coordinates 2,121,200 ft E., 215,450 ft N., north zone, in north-central part of Austerlitz quadrangle, Clark Co., and extending northward along U.S. Highway 227 to its crossing of Strodes Creek, north-central KY (Black and Cuppels, 1973).
Reference section (composite): (1) roadcuts in northeast quadrant of interchange of U.S. Interstate Highway I-64 and U.S. Highway 227, south-central part of Austerlitz quadrangle; (2) roadcuts along Maple St., U.S. Highway 227, in northern outskirts of Winchester, KY; and (3) steep roadcut along westbound lane of I-64 at eastern overpass Louisville and Nashville RR in south-central part of Austerlitz quadrangle (Black and Cuppels, 1973).

AAPG geologic province:

Cincinnati arch*