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  • Usage in publication:
    • Chicken Ridge Sandstone Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Englund, K.J., 1981, Geologic map of the Jewell Ridge quadrangle, Buchanan and Tazewell Counties, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map, GQ-1550, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000 [http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_1094.htm]


Summary:

The Chicken Ridge Sandstone Member of the Kanawha Formation, here named, is in the Jewell Ridge quadrangle in Buchanan and Tazewell Counties, southwestern Virginia. Occurs near the base of the Kanawha and underlies 4 feet of shale and underclay beneath the Bearwallow coal bed. Thickness is 20 feet. Age is Middle Pennsylvanian.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS 1565, p. 61).


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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