| 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Butts1915was 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.