Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Duskin Creek Formation (TN) reallocated to Rockcastle Conglomerate. See Rockcastle.)
Geologic age:
Early Pennsylvanian (Bashkirian; Westphalian; Morrowan)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures on Duskin Creek, a tributary of Piney Creek, which flows by Spring City, Rhea Co., southeastern TN (Nelson, 1925).
[Wilson and others (1956) considered this to be type section.]
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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