Usage:
Wesselman Tongue of Kope Formation (OH*)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Cincinnatian; Edenian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Exposures in an eastfacing embankment on an unnamed creek that is followed by Wesselman Road in Miami Twp., Hamilton, Co., OH. Embankment is 400 ft south of Zion Hill bridge (Ford, 1967).
AAPG geologic province:
Cincinnati arch*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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