Definitions for "Saluda"
Used for a massively bedded interval of relatively pure limestone and dolomite, commonly containing tabulate and favositid corals. Includes peritidal facies of the C5 sequence (as at Madison, Indiana) and lagoonal facies of the C6 sequence (as at Brookville, Indiana). Used in traditional, Indiana Survey, Ohio Survey, and Kentucky Survey systems. In Kentucky, the Saluda is mapped as a member of the Drakes Formation, but is treated as a formation in Ohio and Indiana. In Kentucky, overlies the Bardstown Member of the Drakes and is overlain by Silurian strata. In Indiana, the Saluda overlies the Dillsboro Formation and is overlain by the Whitewater Formation. In Ohio, the Saluda Formation is a tongue into the Whitewater Formation.