Usage:
No current usage.
(†Broad Ford Sandstone (VA,WV), †Broad Ford Sandstone Member of Price Formation (VA), or †Broad Ford Member of Price Formation (WV) [also spelled Broadford in some reports], considered obsolete. Rocks reallocated to Price Formation. See Price.)
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian (Kinderhookian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
At line between Smyth and Tazewell Cos., VA, about 0.5 mi north of Broad Ford [Broadford] village where Laurel Creek of Holston River cuts gap through ridge known as Pine Mountain on west and Brushy Mountain on east (Reger, 1926).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
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