Salem Limestone

Salem Formation
Stratigraphic range: Mississippian
Fossil red algae on Salem Limestone from Kentucky
Type	Formation
Unit of	Sanders Group, Meramec Group
Underlies	St. Louis Limestone
Overlies	Harrodsburg Limestone [1] Warsaw Formation [2]
Lithology
Primary	Limestone
Location
Region	Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Missouri
Country	United States
Type section
Named for	Salem, Washington County, Indiana [2]

The Salem Formation is a geologic formation in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Missouri. It preserves fossils dating back to the Mississippian subperiod. This formation is quarried and used as a building material, known as "Indiana limestone", also called Bedford limestone.

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Illinois
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Indiana
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Kentucky
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Missouri

References

1. "General Stratigraphic Column for Paleozoic Rocks in Indiana" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-07-18.
2. Thompson, Thomas L., 2001, Lexicon of Stratigraphic Nomenclature in Missouri, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Land Survey, Report of Investigation Number 73, p 253-254

External links

• Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Archived from the original on 25 March 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2021.