Bedrock unit in Indiana and Kentucky, United States
Jeffersonville Limestone
Stratigraphic range: Devonian
Large rugose coral (above hammer) in the Jeffersonville Limestone at the Falls of the Ohio
Type
sedimentary
Unit of
Muscatatuck Group
Sub-units
Dutch Creek Sandstone Member, Geneva Dolomite Member, Vernon Fork Member[1]
Underlies
North Vernon Formation and Sellersburg Limestone
Overlies
Clear Creek Chert and Louisville Limestone
Thickness
20 feet (6.1 m) at Louisville, KY,[2] 0 to 200 feet (0 to 61 m) in southwest Indiana[1]
Lithology
Primary
limestone
Location
Region
Cincinnati Arch
Country
United States
Extent
Indiana, Kentucky
Type section
Named for
Jeffersonville, Indiana
Named by
Edward M. Kindle, 1899[3]
The Devonian Jeffersonville Limestone is a mapped bedrock unit in Indiana and Kentucky. It is highly fossiliferous. The Vernon Fork Member contains Volcanic ash associated with the Tioga Bentonites.
^ abDevera, J.A., and Fraunfelter, G.H., 1988, Middle Devonian paleogeography and tectonic relationships east of the Ozark dome, southeastern Missouri, southwestern Illinois and parts of southwestern Indiana and western Kentucky, IN McMillan, N.J., Embry, A.F., and Glass, D.J., eds., Devonian of the World; proceedings of the 2nd international symposium on the Devonian System; Volume II, Sedimentation: Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir, 14, p. 179-196.
^Cite error: The named reference Butts1915 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Kindle, E.M., 1899, The Devonian and lower Carboniferous faunas of southern Indiana and central Kentucky: Bulletins of American Paleontology, no. 12, 112 p.
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