Usage:
Bacon Bend Member of Sevier Formation (TN*)
Bacon Bend Member of Sevier Formation of Chickamauga Group (TN)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Mohawkian; Turinian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposures about 1 mi northeast of southeast end of prominent bluffs that overlook river. Named from meander neck (Bacon Bend) on Little Tennessee River, Vonore quadrangle, eastern TN.
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 ([ ]).