Usage:
Athens Limestone (TN*,VA*)
Athens Shale (AL*,GA*,TN*,VA*)
Athens Formation (AL*,GA*,TN*,VA*)
Subunits:
Pratt Ferry beds (informal) (AL).
Geologic age:
Middle to Late Ordovician (Whiterockian to Mohawkian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Type locality: exposures at Athens, McMinn Co., eastern TN (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 896; see Hayes, 1894, 1895).]
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).