Usage:
Benbolt Formation (TN*,VA*)
Benbolt Limestone (TN*,VA*,WV*)
Benbolt Formation of Chickamauga Group (TN)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in VA: Burkes Garden Limestone Member (TN,VA), Shannondale Limestone Member (VA).
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Mohawkian; Turinian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: about 1-1/8 miles south of Benbolt, west of Tazwell County Farm, VA (Cooper and Prouty, 1943).
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.
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