Usage:
Bays Formation (GA*,TN*,VA*,WV*)
Bays Formation of Chickamauga Group (GA,TN)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in TN,VA: Millbrig K-bentonite Bed, Walker Mountain Sandstone Member.
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Mohawkian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: exposures in Bays Mountain, Greeneville quadrangle, Hawkins and Greene Cos., northeastern TN (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 896; see Keith, 1895, 1905).
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 ([ ]).