Usage:
Fetzer Limestone (TN,VA)
Fetzer Tongue of Arline Formation (GA,TN,VA)
Fetzer Member of Whitesburg Limestone (TN)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Mohawkian; Turinian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along U.S. Route 64, 3 mi southwest of Benton Station, Benton quadrangle, Polk Co., TN. Named from Fetzer Creek, not far from type section along Ocoee River (Cooper, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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