Usage:
Konnarock Formation (VA*)
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Along Whitetop Laurel Creek and adjacent roadcuts and railroad [now abandoned] cuts, from northwest of termination of County Road 728 at Creek Junction [Lat. 36 deg. 39.08 min. N., Long. 81 deg. 40.81 min. W.] and Konnarock, Konnarock 7.5-min quadrangle, Washington Co., southwestern VA (Rankin, 1993).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
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