Usage:
Birdsong Shale of Linden Group (TN*)
Birdsong Formation (TN)
Birdsong Shale Member of Ross Formation (TN*)
Geologic age:
Early Devonian (Lochkovian to Pragian; Helderbergian Provincial Age)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Typically developed along valley of Birdsong Creek, Benton Co., Tennessee River Valley region, western TN (Dunbar, 1918).
AAPG geologic province:
Cincinnati arch*
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 ([ ]).