Usage:
/Whitewater Drift (IN)
/Whitewater Till (IN,OH)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Ordovician Whitewater Formation by Nickles (1903) in same area.]
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Pleistocene
pre-Illinoian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: American Aggregates pit section, in east side of railroad cut at gravel quarry in north-central part of sec. 36, T. 14 N., R. 1 W., at northeast edge of Richmond, Wayne Co., southeastern IN. Occurs in Whitewater Valley and basin (Gooding, 1963).
AAPG geologic province:
Cincinnati arch
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