Usage:
Leipers Formation (AL*,GA,KY*,TN*)
Leipers Limestone (AL*,GA,KY*,TN*)
Leipers Limestone of Chickamauga Group (AL*)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Cincinnatian; Edenian to Maysvillian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along Leipers Creek, 2 mi north of Water Valley, Maury Co., TN (Hayes and Ulrich, 1903).
AAPG geologic province:
Cincinnati arch*
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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