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Geologic Unit: Warix Run

Usage:

Warix Run Member of Slade Formation (KY*)


Geologic age:

Mississippian, Late*


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

Type section: roadcut along KY Highway 801, north of intersection of KY Highways 801 and 1274, near the head of Warix Run, a tributary of Licking River (Cave Run Lake), Bangor quadrangle, Rowan Co., KY (Ettensohn and others, 1984).


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 ([ ]).