Usage:
No current usage.
(†Mount Athos Formation of †Evington Group (VA*) considered abandoned. Rocks reallocated to Alligator Back Formation of Lynchburg Group. See Alligator Back.)
Geologic age:
Early(?) Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Occurrence at Mount Athos, east of Lynchburg, along James River, central VA (Furcron, 1931; Espenshade, 1954).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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