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Geologic Unit: Linden

Usage:

Linden Group (MS,TN*)


Subunits:

(ascending) Rockhouse Shale (TN*), Olive Hill Formation (TN*), Ross Formation (TN,MS), Flat Gap Limestone (TN,MS), Birdsong Shale (TN*), and Decaturville Chert (TN)


Geologic age:

Early Devonian (Lochkovian to Pragian; Helderbergian Provincial Age)*


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

Linden, Perry Co., west-central TN (Safford and Killebrew, 1876).


AAPG geologic province:

Cincinnati arch*
Black Warrior basin


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

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).