- Usage in publication:
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- Keokee Sandstone Member*
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Sandstone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Appalachian basin
Summary:
Pg. 27-28, 58. Keokee Sandstone Member of Wise Formation. Cliff-forming, gray or pale-yellowish-brown, medium-grained, thick-bedded, feldspathic, slightly micaceous sandstone; contains some fine-grained sandstone, and carbonized plant fossils and carbonaceous films and stringers. Thickness 59+/- feet at type section. Lies about 120 feet below Clover Fork Sandstone Member and 150 to 200 feet above Robbins Chapel Sandstone Member, both of Wise Formation. [Age is Middle Pennsylvanian].
Type section: 1 mi east of Keokee along VA Highway 68, beginning 5,200 ft (airline) east of Keokee School and 200 ft east-northeast of junction of side road with highway at curve at bottom of long hill, northeastern Keokee 7.5-min quadrangle, northeastern Lee Co., southwestern VA. Named from town of Keokee.
Source: Publication; GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX); US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1520, p. 163-164).
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