Usage:
Kanawha Formation (VA*,WV*)
Kanawha Member of Pottsville Formation (WV)
Kanawha black flint (informal) (WV)
[?] Kanawha Group (WV)
For informal usage, the rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Subunits:
FORMATION STATUS (alphabetical): Bearwallow Sandstone Member (VA*), Betsie Shale Member (WV*), Brownstown Sandstone [Member] (WV), Chicken Ridge Sandstone Member (VA*), Decota Sandstone [Member] (WV), Dingess Shale Member (WV*), Dotson Sandstone [Member] (WV), /Eagle Shale Member (WV), Grapevine Sandstone Member (WV), Homewood Sandstone Member (WV), War Eagle Sandstone [Member] (WV), Winifrede Shale Member (WV*).
Geologic age:
Pennsylvanian, Middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposed in hills north of Kanawha Falls, west-central WV (Campbell and Mendenhall, 1896).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).