Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Catron Formation of Breathitt Group (KY*,TN*) reallocated to Breathitt Formation [or Hyden Formation of Breathitt Group] in KY, and to Redoak Mountain and Graves Gap Formations in TN. See Breathitt, Graves Gap, Hyden, and Redoak Mountain.)
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Moscovian; Westphalian; Atokan)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures on Coon Branch of Catron Creek in Black Mountains, Harlan Co., southeastern KY (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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