Usage:
Low Gap Sandstone Member of Cross Mountain Formation (TN*)
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Moscovian; Westphalian; late Atokan)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: same as Cross Mountain group, which is on road leading to top of Cross Mountain, Lake City quadrangle, Anderson Co., eastern TN. Named from exposures in Low Gap on crest of Redoak Mountain between Graves Gap and Cross Mountain (Wilson and others, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
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