Usage:
Holston Formation (TN)
Holston Formation of Chickamauga Group (TN)
Holston Limestone (GA*,TN*,VA*)
Holston Marble of Chickamauga Group (TN*)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Whiterockian to Mohawkian; late Chazyan to Turinian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: along and near Holston River, 7 mi east-northeast of center of Knoxville where Holston River leaves standard reference belt just south of the John Sevier yards; includes quarry of Volunteer Portland Cement Company, just west of Holston River, Knox Co., eastern TN (Rodgers, 1953).
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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