Usage:
Longview Dolomite of Knox Group (KY,TN,VA)
Longview Formation of Knox Group (VA)
Longview Limestone (AL)
Longview Limestone of Knox Group (AL,GA)
Longview Dolomite Member of Beekmantown Formation of Knox Group (VA)
Geologic age:
Early Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named for fact that town of Longview [in T. 21 S., R. 2 W., Montevallo 15-min quadrangle], Shelby Co., northern AL, is located on a rather wide area of the formation (Butts, 1926).
Best exposures: (1) on Little Cahaba River, in sec. 17, T. 24 N., R. 11 E., [Montevallo 15-min quadrangle, Bibb Co.]; (2) on Buck Creek btw. Helena and Pelham [Helena 7.5-min quadrangle, Shelby Co.]; and (3) in Cahaba Valley just north of reservoir of Birmingham waterworks in NE/4 sec. 16, T. 18 S., R. 1 W. [probably now beneath Lake Purdy, Cahaba Heights 7.5-min quadrangle, Jefferson Co.] (Butts, 1926).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
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