Usage:
Flat Gap Limestone Member of Olive Hill Formation (TN*)
Flat Gap Limestone of Linden Group (MS,TN)
Flat Gap Limestone (TN*)
Geologic age:
Early Devonian (Lochkovian to Pragian; Helderbergian Provincial Age)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type exposure: on Flat Gap Creek, northeast of Olivehill, Hardin Co., central southern TN (Wilson, 1949).
AAPG geologic province:
Upper Mississippi embayment*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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