- Usage in publication:
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- Clifton Creek Limestone
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Appalachian basin
Summary:
The Clifton Creek Limestone, informally named by Sanders (1952), is here named in the Greendale syncline in Hawkins and Grainger Cos., TN, where Mississippian strata previously designated Newman Limestone (Hardeman and others, 1966) are isolated from the Newman Limestone in the Newman Ridge syncline. The Clifton Creek consists of gray, thick-bedded, finely crystalline limestone and fine-grained oolitic calcarenite. Sharply overlies the Snow Flake Formation; underlies the Gilliam Creek Limestone. Correlates, in part, with the St. Louis Limestone. Thickness is 39 m (130 ft). Age is Mississippian.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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