Usage:
Burkes Garden Limestone Member of Benbolt Formation (VA-local)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Mohawkian; Turinian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Along County Road 637 and Pounding Mill Branch, immediately south of U.S. Route 19, Tazewell Co., VA. Named from Burkes Garden Creek about 1.5 mi south of Gose Mill (Cooper and Prouty, 1943).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
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