- Usage in publication:
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- Lonesome Pine Formation
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Limestone
- Shale
- Chert
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Appalachian basin
Summary:
The Lonesome Pine Formation is here named in the area southeast of the Clinchport thrust fault in Hancock and Hawkins Cos., TN. It consists of pink and gray, fossiliferous limestone, including mound structures of reef origin, calcareous shale, and chert. Divided into informal lower and upper members. Unconformably overlies the Elway Limestone; gradationally underlies the Luther Formation. Thickness is 170 m (565 ft) at type section. Age is Middle Ordovician.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
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