Jeffersonville Limestone

Jeffersonville Limestone
Stratigraphic range: Devonian
Large rugose coral (above hammer) in the Jeffersonville Limestone at the Falls of the Ohio
Typesedimentary
Unit ofMuscatatuck Group
Sub-unitsDutch Creek Sandstone Member, Geneva Dolomite Member, Vernon Fork Member[1]
UnderliesNorth Vernon Formation and Sellersburg Limestone
OverliesClear Creek Chert and Louisville Limestone
Thickness20 feet (6.1 m) at Louisville, KY,[2] 0 to 200 feet (0 to 61 m) in southwest Indiana[1]
Lithology
Primarylimestone
Location
RegionCincinnati Arch
CountryUnited States
ExtentIndiana, Kentucky
Type section
Named forJeffersonville, Indiana
Named byEdward 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.

  1. ^ a b Devera, 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.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Butts1915 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Kindle, E.M., 1899, The Devonian and lower Carboniferous faunas of southern Indiana and central Kentucky: Bulletins of American Paleontology, no. 12, 112 p.