Usage:
Elway Limestone (TN,VA*,WV*)
Elway Limestone of Chickamauga Group (TN)
Geologic age:
latest Middle and/or earliest Late Ordovician (Chazyan)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along State Highway 80 near Blackford, Russell Co., VA. Named from settlement along U.S. Route 19 near Lebanon (Cooper, 1945).
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 ([ ]).