Usage:
Tate Member of Ashlock Formation (KY*)
Tate Member of Grant Lake Limestone (KY*)
Subunits:
MEMBER STATUS: Back Bed (KY*).
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Cincinnatian; Maysvillian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Uncertain but probably named from outcrops along Tate Creek about 3 mi northwest of Richmond, Madison Co., KY. [From GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX]
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.
"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 ([ ]).