Usage:
No current
(†Long Savannah Formation (AL,GA,TN) replaced with Pond Springs Formation of Stones River Group. See Pond Springs.)
Geologic age:
late Middle and/or early Late Ordovician (Whiterockian; Chazyan)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Along Mahan Gap Road, Snow Hill quadrangle, Hamilton Co., TN. Named from Long Savannah Creek just northeast of Snow Hill (Cooper, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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