Usage:
Clinch Sandstone (KY*,TN*,VA*,WV*)
Subunits:
Hagan Shale Member (TN*,VA*), and Poor Valley Ridge Member (TN*,VA*)
Geologic age:
early Silurian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures on Clinch Mountain, northeast TN and southwest VA (Safford, 1856).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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