Usage:
Paperville Formation (GA,TN,VA)
Paperville Shale (VA*-subsurface)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Whiterockian to Mohawkian; late Chazyan to Turinian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along Steele Creek, [southwestern edge of Bristol], Bristol (TVA 206-SW) quadrangle, [Sullivan Co.], northern TN. Named from Paperville, [southeast of Bristol, southeastern part of Bristol quadrangle] (Cooper, 1956).
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 ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).