Usage:
Mannie Formation (TN)
Mannie Shale (AL,TN*)
Mannie Shale Member of Sequatchie Formation (AL,GA)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: northwest of Riverside, Lewis Co., western TN. Named from exposures north of west end of railroad bridge across Buffalo River near mouth of Allens Creek [formerly Mannie Creek] (Foerste, 1903; Wilson, 1949).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian 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 ( ).
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