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Geologic Unit: Jellico

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Jellico Formation (TN) replaced with Slatestone Formation and Indian Bluff Formation. See Slatestone and Indian Bluff.)


Geologic age:

late Early to Middle Pennsylvanian (late Bashkirian to Moscovian; Westphalian; late Morrowan to Atokan)


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Named from occurrence of Jellico coal within the formation as its most prominent economic feature; in northern Tennessee coal field, northern TN (Glenn, 1925).


AAPG geologic province:

Appalachian basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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