Usage:
Farragut Limestone (TN)
Geologic age:
Middle Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Appalachian Marble Company quarry, 1.4 mi due east of Lowes Ferry [no longer exists; Lowe Ferry, formerly on Tennessee River east of Jones Chapel, approx. Lat. 35 deg. 51 min. 10 sec. N., Long. 84 deg. 05 min. 03 sec. W., Louisville 7.5-min quadrangle (TVA 138-SE 1941 prelim. ed.), Blount Co., northeastern TN]. Named from site of Admiral "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" Farragut homestead at Lowes Ferry on Tennessee River, 9.5 mi southwest of Knoxville (Prouty, 1946).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
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