Usage:
Carters Limestone of Stones River Group (GA*,TN*)
Originally called Carter's Creek.
Subunits:
Deicke K-bentonite Bed (GA*,TN*).
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Mohawkian; Turinian to early Chatfieldian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures on Carters Creek, Maury Co., Nashville dome, central TN. Carters Creek arises from many several tributaries about 8 mi north of Columbia, Maury Co., flows essentially southward, joining Rutherford Creek about 3.5 mi north of Columbia (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Cincinnati arch*
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province*
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 ( ).
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