Usage:
Olive Hill Formation of Linden Group (TN*)
Subunits:
Ross Limestone Member (TN*), Bear Branch Member (TN*), and Flat Gap Member (TN*)
Geologic age:
Early Devonian (Lochkovian to Pragian; Helderbergian Provincial Age)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposure in bluff on Indian Creek at Olive Hill, Hardin Co., western TN (Dunbar, 1918).
AAPG geologic province:
Upper Mississippi embayment*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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