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Geologic Unit: Fetzer
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Fetzer tongue
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Cooper, G.A., 1956, Chazyan and related brachiopods [U.S.-Canada]: Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, v. 127, pt. 1, 1245 p.


Summary:

Named the Fetzer tongue of the Arline formation for Fetzer Creek, near Benton Station, Polk Co., TN. Consists of 6 to 8 feet of nodular crumbly limestone with thin granular interbeds. General lithology is similar to Arline formation and is more argillaceous than the underlying Lenoir limestone. Unit is basically same unit as the Botetourt limestone member of the Edinburg formation of the Shenandoah Valley of VA. Recognized in southeastern belts of the southern Appalachian region from Wytheville, VA to GA. The Fetzer is of Middle Ordovician (Mohawkian) age.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Fetzer Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Walker, K.R., Steinhauff, D.M., and Roberson, K.E., 1992, Uppermost Knox Group, the Knox unconformity, the Middle Ordovician transition from shallow shelf to deeper basin at Dandridge, Tennessee, IN Driese, S.G., and others, eds., Paleosols, paleoweathering surfaces, and sequence boundaries: University of Tennessee, Department of Geological Sciences Studies in Geology, no. 21, p. 13-18.


Summary:

Fetzer Member or facies is assigned to the base of the Whitesburg Formation and overlies the Lenoir Formation in this report. Consists of a basal metalliferous carbonate and an overlying limonitic/phosphatic claystone. Unit is a dark brown to dark gray, to nearly black, well indurated, argillaceous carbonate with abundant fossils. Bedding is generally nodular to laminated. The Fetzer proper is at least 5 m thick in the eastern outcrop. On the western end of the outcrop, it is about 2 m thick and overlies a more shaly tongue of the Whitesburg. Authors believe that the Fetzer is not a continuous body of rock but instead consists of lenses.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


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