Usage:
Lebanon Limestone of Stones River Group (GA*,TN*)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Mohawkian; Turinian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: on west slope of hill behind mill at Readyville, northeast of where Murfreesboro-Woodbury Highway crosses East Fork of Stones River, Cannon Co., TN (Wilson, 1949).
Named from exposures at Lebanon, Wilson Co., TN (Safford, 1851).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
Cincinnati arch*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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