Usage:
Vienna Limestone (IL*,IN*,KY*,MO*)
Vienna Limestone of Pope Group (IL)
Vienna Limestone of Buffalo Wallow Group (IN-subsurface)
Vienna Limestone Member of Branchville Formation (IN)
Vienna Limestone Member of Buffalo Wallow Formation (KY*)
Vienna Limestone Member of Leitchfield Formation (KY*)
Geologic age:
Middle Mississippian (late Visean; Chesterian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Vienna, Johnson Co., IL, where formation is exposed in some streets of the town, and in quarry just west of town (Weller, 1920).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin*
Ozark uplift*
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 ([ ]).