Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Herbert Conglomerate (TN) reallocated to Newton Sandstone. See Newton.)
Geologic age:
Early Pennsylvanian (Bashkirian; Westphalian; Morrowan)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Best measurement was taken on Glade Creek just north of old road from [Herbert Domain], Bledsoe Co., to Sparta crosses this stream, [Pikeville quadrangle, scale 1:125,000], southeastern TN (Nelson, 1925).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
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