Usage:
Center Hill Ash Bed of Dowelltown Member of Chattanooga Shale (TN*)
Center Hill Ash Bed of Pipe Creek Shale Member of Java Formation (subsurface of OH*,PA*,TN*,VA*,WV*)
Center Hill Ash (VA)
[/?] Center Hill Metabentonite (IN,KY,TN)
Geologic age:
Late Devonian (late Frasnian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
At proposed standard locality of Chattanooga Shale, along east approach to Sligo Bridge, DeKalb Co., central TN. Named from exposures near Center Hill Reservoir in DeKalb, Putnam, and White Cos., TN (Conant and Swanson, 1961).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
Cincinnati arch*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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