Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Wickcliff Sandstone (IN,KY) reallocated to Branchville Formation of Buffalo Wallow Group. See Branchville.)
Geologic age:
Late Mississippian (Serpukhovian; late Chesterian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures in ravines around Wickcliff, Crawford Co., IN (Malott, 1925).
[Along Birdseye Road and in a small creek or branch, just south of Wickcliff where unit is 35 ft thick (interpretation of Gray, 1992).]
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin
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