Usage:
Hinton Formation (KY*,TN*,VA*,WV*)
Hinton Formation of Mauch Chunk Group (VA*,WV*)
Hinton Formation of Pennington Group (KY,VA*,WV)
Hinton Group (WV)
Subunits:
FORMATION STATUS (alphabetical): Eads Mill Member (VA,WV), Falls Mills Sandstone Member (VA*,WV*), Hackett Sandstone Member (WV*), Little Stone Gap Member (KY,VA*,WV*), Neal Sandstone Member (VA*,WV*), Pratter Shale Member (VA*,WV*), Ravencliff Member (WV), Stony Gap Sandstone Member (KY,VA*,WV*), Tallery Sandstone Member (VA*,WV*).
Geologic age:
Late Mississippian (Serpukhovian; Chesterian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: Hinton, Summers Co., south-central WV (Campbell and Mendenhall, 1896).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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