Pages authored by Ann M. Burger:

1. Rock Unit Names / Ancell Group
   Type locality: The composite type section of the Ancell Group (Templeton and Willman, 1966, p. 29) was designated in the bluffs north of Ancell, between Dutchtown and Rock Levee, Mo.
2. Rock Unit Names / Carbondale Group
   Type locality and use of name in Indiana: The name Carbondale Formation was first used by Shaw and Savage (1912, p. 6) in a description of rocks exposed near Carbondale in Jackson County, Ill.
3. Rock Unit Names / McLeansboro Group
   Type area and use of name: The name McLeansboro Formation was first used by De Wolf (1910, p. 181) for all rocks of Pennsylvanian age above the Herrin (No. 6) Coal of Illinois exposed near McLeansboro, Hamilton County, Ill.
4. Carbondale Group / Dugger Formation
   Type locality and use of name: The name Dugger Formation was used by Wier (1950 1952, p. 17) in describing rocks exposed in secs. 31 and 32, T. 8 N., R. 7 W., and secs. 5 and 6, T. 7 N., R. 7 W., 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of Dugger, Sullivan County, Ind.
5. Carbondale Group / Petersburg Formation
   Type area, reference section, and use of name: The name Petersburg, taken from Petersburg, Pike County, Ind., by Fuller and Ashley (1902, p. 2), was used for a coal in that area as well as for a formation consisting of the rocks between the bases of their Petersburg and Millersburg Coals.
6. Dugger Formation / Alum Cave Limestone Member
   Type section and use of name: The name Alum Cave was first used by Logan (1930, p. 168) in a columnar section for an indefinite interval of rock above the Springfield Coal Member in Sullivan County, Ind.
7. Dugger Formation / Bucktown Coal Member
   Type locality and identification problem: The name Bucktown Coal Member (Dugger Formation) was proposed by Wier (1965) in an unpublished manuscript and was first published by Burger and Wier (1970), who also designated a type section in sec.
8. Dugger Formation / Providence Limestone Member
   Type locality and use of name in Indiana: The name Providence Limestone was first used by Glenn (1922, p. 98) in describing exposures of a 1- to 4-foot (0.3- to 1.2-m) limestone bed near Providence, Webster County, Ky.
9. Dugger Formation / Universal Limestone Member
   Type locality and description: The name Universal Limestone Member (of the Dugger Formation) was first used by Wier (1951) for a mottled gray and brown limestone that is fine grained, argillaceous, and fossiliferous. The type locality is in the NW¼SW¼ sec.
10. Linton Formation / Coxville Sandstone Member
    Type section: The name Coxville Sandstone was first used by Ashley (1899, p. 300-301, 385) in describing a 20-foot (6-m) sandstone exposed on the northeast side of Raccoon Creek in the NE¼ sec. 16 T. 14 N., R 8 W, half a mile east of Coxville, Parke County, Ind.
11. Linton Formation / Velpen Limestone Member
    Type and reference sections and history of name: The name Velpen Coal was used by Fuller and Ashley (1902) for the coal in Pike County, Ind., now known as the Colchester Coal Member of the Linton Formation.
12. Petersburg Formation / Houchin Creek Coal Member
    Type and reference sections and use of name: The name Houchin Creek Coal was first used by Fuller and Ashley (1902, p 2) for the coal that is prominent along Houchin Creek in southeastern Pike County, Ind. This unit had previously been designated as Coal IVa by Ashley (1899, p. 90).
13. Petersburg Formation / Stendal Limestone Member
    Type and reference sections and synonym: The name Stendal Limestone Member (of the Petersburg Formation) was proposed by Wier (1961, 1965) for the limestone previously known as the Houchin Creek cap (Weller, Henbest, and Dunbar, 1942, p. 32) or the Houchin Creek Limestone (Cooper, 1946, p. 16) and exposed near Stendal, Pike County,...
14. McLeansboro Group / Bond Formation
    Type area and use of name in Indiana: The name Bond Formation was first used for rocks exposed in Bond County, southwestern Illinois (Kosanke and others, 1960, p. 38).
15. McLeansboro Group / Shelburn Formation
    Type locality and redefinition of name: The name Shelburn Formation was used by Cumings (1922, p. 525, 529) for the rocks included in the “interval between the disconformity above Coal VII and the base of the Merom Sandstone.”
16. Whitewater Formation / Saluda Member
    Type locality and use of name: The name Saluda Bed was first used by Foerste (1902, p. 369) in describing a cliff-forming gray silty dolomitic limestone exposed along Saluda Creek 6 miles (10 km) south of Hanover, Jefferson County, Ind. The name replaced the term Madison Beds (of Borden, 1874, and others), which was preoccupied.
17. New Albany Shale / Camp Run Member
    Type section and description: The Camp Run Member of the New Albany Shale was named by Lineback (1968, 1970) for exposures of greenish- to olive-gray shale interbedded with brownish-black pyritic fissile shale along the south side of Indiana Highway 311 at the Interstate Highway 65 overpass west of Sellersburg, Clark County, Ind.
18. New Albany Shale / Morgan Trail Member
    Type section: The Morgan Trail Member of the New Albany Shale was named by Lineback (1968, 1970) for a roadside park 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of the type section in the NW¼ sec.