Usage:
Mount Zion Church Member of Wash Creek Slate (AL)
Geologic age:
Early(?) Cambrian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures in vicinity of the Mount Zion Church, in sec. 17, T. 23 N., R. 15 E., Lay Dam quadrangle, Chilton Co., central AL (Guthrie, 1994).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Appalachian basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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