Usage:
Tradewater Formation (IL*,KY*)
Tradewater Formation of Raccoon Creek Group (IL,KY)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): [?]Aberdeen Sandstone Member (KY-local), [?]Assumption Coal Member (IL-local), Cedar Creek sandstone lentil (informal) (IL), Ferne Clyffe member (informal) (IL), Grindstaff Sandstone Member (KY*), Lake of Egypt member (informal) (IL), Murray Bluff Sandstone Member (IL), Ozark sandstone lentil (informal) (IL), Pope Creek Coal Member (IL), Reynoldsburg Coal Bed (IL), Sugar Creek sandstone lentil (informal) (IL), Tarter Coal Member (IL*), Tunnel Hill Coal Bed (IL).
Geologic age:
Pennsylvanian, Early*
Morrowan*
Pennsylvanian, Middle*
Atokan*
Desmoinesian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: along Tradewater River east of Battery Rock, KY (Glenn, 1912).
Reference section (subsurface): Western Kentucky Stratigraphic Test Hole Gil no. 15, Union Co., KY (Tri-State Committee on Correlation of the Pennsylvanian System in the Illinois Basin, 2001).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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