Usage:
Cottingham Creek Member of Lenoir Limestone (AL*)
Geologic age:
Middle Ordovician (Whiterockian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposure near Pratt Ferry on east cutbank of Cahaba River, north of Pratt Ferry Bridge, 0.32 km north of confluence of Cottingham Creek and Cahaba River, in NE/4 NE/4 sec. 33, T. 24 N., R. 10 E., West Blocton East 7.5-minute quadrangle, Bibb Co., AL (Shaw and others, 1990).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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