Usage:
Ben Hur Limestone (KY,TN*,VA*?)
Ben Hur Limestone of Chickamauga Group (TN)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Mohawkian; Turinian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from town of Ben Hur, Lee Co., VA (Miller and Brosge, 1950).
Type section: along railroad cut of the Louisville and Nashville RR, 1,000 ft west of station at Ben Hur, Lee Co., VA (Miller and Brosge, 1954).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
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