Usage:
Little Stone Gap Member of Hinton Formation (KY,VA*,WV*)
Little Stone Gap Member of Pennington Formation (KY*)
Geologic age:
Late Mississippian (Serpukhovian; late Chesterian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Along county road from Norton to High Knob, Wise Co., VA (Norton quadrangle). Named from Little Stone Gap, which is located near Norton (Miller, 1964).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).