Usage:
Lenoir Limestone (AL*,GA*,TN*,VA*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Cottingham Creek Member (AL*), Deaton Member (GA*), Douglas Lake Member (TN*), Lee Branch member (informal) (AL), Mosheim Member (AL*,GA*,TN*) or Mosheim Limestone Member (AL*,GA*,TN*).
Geologic age:
Middle to Late Ordovician (Whiterockian; Chazyan and older)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures at Lenoir Station [Lenoir City, Lenoir City 7.5-min quadrangle], Loudon Co., eastern TN (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
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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